How Damien Hirst ruined Devon
There are few better locations to resist la rentrée than the wilds of Exmoor. The late August heather and gorse.…
At the V&A, we’ve done some Marie Kondo-style reordering
‘We humour them when they suggest absurd reforms, we placate them with small material comforts, but we heave sighs of…
Ignore the activists – Humboldt’s Enlightenment project deserves celebrating
Ignore the activists, says Tristram Hunt, Alexander von Humboldt’s Enlightenment project, embodied in a flash new Berlin museum, deserves celebrating
As V&A director, I won’t save Clive of India
‘Pray for us St Sebastian that we may deserve to pass through this pestilence,’ reads the inscription on a 15th-century…
Why Dior loved the English
‘There is no other country in the world, besides my own, whose way of life I like so much,’ enthused…
Tristram Hunt’s diary: Work and play on the Persian Gulf
On the gently lapping shores of the Persian Gulf, in the steely shadow of the Burj Khalifa, I bump into…
Diary
I used to long for mid-October when I could say goodbye to the hot rooms, cold buffets, and warm white…
Labour must stop feeling repulsed by the idea of Englishness
My party needs to stop being scared of patriotism
Tristram Hunt’s Diary: Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘revenge reshuffle’ has distracted attention from several Tory disasters
Whatever you do, don’t allow your six-year-old to be caught short at Crewkerne station. With the rain pouring and the…
Tristram Hunt’s diary: The rainy glories of Devon – and a cold political climate
‘Devon, Devon, Devon/ Where it rains six days out of seven.’ Nothing beats a British seaside holiday. And north Devon…
Caught between Marx and a monster
‘Curious to see Mrs Aveling addressing the enormous crowd, curious to see the eyes of the women fixed upon her…
Tristram Hunt's diary: Why has Gove allowed a school that makes women wear the hijab?
ONE OF THE MINOR sociological treats of being appointed shadow education secretary is a frontbench view of David Cameron’s crimson…
