The Victoria & Albert museum in London announced today that the Labour MP Tristram Hunt will become its new director. The appointment has already been approved by the Prime Minister, Theresa May, and ...

Tristram Hunt, the director of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, said in a radio interview today that he was “proud” that his institution was supported by the Sackler family. The director made ...

Hunt is unequivocal about the calls for the haul to be repatriated. ‘Our trustees are bound not to “deaccession” items; once something enters the collection, it can’t leave,’ he says, which takes the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Any list of the most outstanding British business leaders of all time would have to place Josiah Wedgwood at or ...

This is a historian making history his party may come to regret. Tristram Hunt says he doesn't want to rock the boat by quitting his parliamentary constituency of Stoke on Trent. Of course not. He ...

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The V&A director and former MP talks about controversy, statues of colonialists – and why Wedgwood was the Steve Jobs of his time Judith Woods writes features and a weekly column for The Daily ...