The ideas and people who inspired and shaped the great Victorian cities, with all their energy, achievements and pride.
Tristram Hunt is director of the Victoria & Albert Museum and one of Britain's best-known historians. He served as MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central from 2010 to 2017, and between October 2013 and September 2015 as Shadow Secretary of State for Education. He is a senior lecturer in British history at Queen Mary, University of London, and has written numerous series for radio and television. His previous books include The English Civil War- At First Hand, The Frock-Coated Communist- The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels and Ten Cities that Made an Empire, between them published in more than a dozen languages.
A key text which should be read by all politicians and by anyone
interested in the way we live now. It is deeply researched, but
written in an highly accessible way, and the reader never loses
sight of the vitally relevant and interesting story Tristram Hunt
has to tell. It is history writing at its compulsive best.
*A. N. Wilson*
What matters is his book's prodigious range and passionate
enthusiasm, and his skill in showing how ideas, however foolish,
can take over minds, change landscapes and mould the future. It is
a rich, nutritious read.
*Sunday Times*
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