Tristram Hunt.
TRISTRAM HUNT: JOSIAH WEDGWOOD BIOGRAPHY
THE RADICAL POTTER: JOSIAH WEDGWOOD AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF BRITAIN (2021)
Josiah Wedgwood (1730 – 1795) was an English potter, entrepreneur and abolitionist. Founding the Wedgwood company in 1759, he developed improved pottery bodies by systematic experimentation, and was the leader in the industrialisation of the manufacture of European pottery. Having achieved efficiency in production, he obtained efficiencies in sales and distribution. His showrooms in London gave the public the chance to see his complete range of tableware.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tristram Hunt, born 1974, is a historian and journalist, who read history at Trinity College, Cambridge. His personal connection with Josiah Wedgwood was his period as the member of parliament (2010 to 2017) for Stoke-on-Trent Central. From 2013 to 2015 he was shadow Secretary of State for Education. In 2017 he left the House of Commons to become Director of the Victoria & Albert Museum.
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