5 facts about the V&A's new director

Labour MP Tristram Hunt  is leaving behind his constituency of Stoke to become director of one of the country's most beloved __design institutions, the Victoria & Albert museum. Here are the things you need to know...

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  1. Hunt is a historian, writer and broadcaster. An expert on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He is the author of several books, including The English Civil War: At First Hand, and most recently Ten Cities That Made An Empire. 
  2. A regular history broadcaster on BBC and Channel 4, Tristram has made more than a dozen series on subjects including Elgar and Empire, Isaac Newton and the English Civil War.
  3. His support of the ceramics industry, together with the Art Fund, played an important role in saving the Wedgwood Collection in 2014. The collection was gifted to the V&A and is on long-term loan to the Wedgwood Museum in Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent. 
  4. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a founder of the Stoke-on-Trent Literary Festival and a Patron of the British Ceramics Biennial, and was previously a Trustee of both the Heritage Lottery Fund and the National Heritage Memorial Fund, and a Curator of the Mayor of London's History Festival.
  5. MD of Conde Nast and chairman of the V&A Nicholas Coleridge enthused: "He has a highly compelling mixture of experience across public life, the arts, history, education and academia, and knows our collections well from his writing and broadcasting. In addition, he is an informed and articulate leader and communicator on numerous facets of culture, both historic and contemporary, and I greatly look forward to working with him at the V&A."


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