Caroline Shenton

Broschiertes Buch

Day Parliament Burned Down

Beschreibung

The thrilling but largely unknown story of the day in 1834 that the 800 year-old Houses of Parliament burned down - an event that was as shocking and significant to contemporaries as the death of Princess Diana was to us at the end of the 20th century.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780199677504
• ISBN-10: 0199677506
• Artikelnr.: 37779010