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Reviews for The Day the Parliament Burned Down Microhistory at its best. -Mary Beard One of the many achievements of Shenton's scholarly but gripping account is to revive, in all its intricacy and richness, the ghost of one of London's greatest lost treasures. - Rosemary Hill, The Guardian A glorious micro-history ... Shenton has a terrific eye for fine detail. - Daily Telegraph The Day Parliament Burned Down is both a gripping account of that fateful night and a wide-ranging search for its ramifications across British society. Well written and extensively illustrated, this is a book that deserves attention. - BBC History Magazine

An achievement as intricate and splendid as Mr Barry's own. Superb. Lucy Worsley This beautifully crafted book walks us through a tumultuous fragment of our history, deftly illuminating every extraordinary step - the rivalries, the soaring ambitions, the barely-hid betrayals, the spectacular personal suffering. As the new Palace of Westminster rose from the ruins of the old it was at times dwarfed by the personal battles that lay behind its creation. This is politics laid on with a mason's trowel. Lord Michael Dobbs, author of House of Cards

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Caroline Shenton was Director of the Parliamentary Archives at Westminster from 2008 to 2014, and prior to that was a senior archivist at Parliament and The National Archives at Kew. Her first book, The Day Parliament Burned Down, won the inaugural Political Book of the Year Award in 2013. It was also shortlisted for a number of other prizes, including the Longman-History Today Prize, and was a Book of the Year for the Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, Daily Mail, and Herald Scotland. This is its sequel.

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