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The New Relevance of Friedrich Engels: An Interview with Tristram Hunt

Source: History News Network

Sep 26, 2009

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Dr. Tristram Hunt is one of Britain’s best known young historians. Educated at Cambridge and Chicago Universities, he is lecturer in British history at Queen Mary, University of London and author of Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City. A leading historical broadcaster, he has authored numerous series for BBC Radio and Television and Channel 4. A regular contributor to the London Times, the Guardian and the Observer, he is a Trustee of the National Heritage Memorial Fund and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Your latest book is Marx's General: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels. What moved you to write this book?

It grew out of my work on the Victorian city, which is what I did my PhD on at Cambridge. After that I wrote, Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City, and if you go anywhere near the Victorian city you meet Engels. I, like so many others, was blown away by Engels’s Conditions of the Working Class in England -- despite all the later critiques of it. Engels seemed to me a very fascinating character

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