Colin Matthew Memorial Lecture 2016: Tristram Hunt MP, “Ten Cities that Built an Empire”

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Date / time: 5 October, 6:00 pm

Location
Museum of London


Colin Matthew Memorial Lecture 2016: Tristram Hunt MP, "Ten Cities that Built an Empire"

Colin Matthew Memorial Lecture for the Public Understanding of History 2016

“Ten Cities that Built an Empire: Understanding British Imperialism Through the Urban Past”
Dr Tristram Hunt, MP

Discussion of Britain’s imperial past is increasingly bifurcated along populist ‘good’ and ‘bad’ narratives.  An account of the UK’s colonial legacy through the prism of urban history allows for a more nuanced and reflexive critique of Empire. The rise and fall of the British Empire will be discussed through the history of ten cities, exploring how their architectural, planning, and commercial history elucidates their place within the imperial story.

huntTristram Hunt is MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central, and Senior Lecturer in Modern British History at Queen Mary, University of London. He was Shadow Education Secretary 2013-15, and is the author of Building Jerusalem: The Rise & Fall of the Victorian City (2004), The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels (2009), and Ten Cities that Made an Empire (2014).

The Colin Matthew Memorial Lecture for Public Understanding of History is co-hosted by Gresham College.

Colin Matthew 1Colin Matthew (1941-1999) was Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford, and a long time Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (1976-1999). He served as its Literary Director from 1985-1989 and as a Vice-President from 1993-1997, as well as Editor of the Dictionary of National Biography from 1992-1999. Colin was deeply committed to the principle that academic history should be accessible to a wide public. The lecture is named in his honour.