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Mr Barry’s War
Rebuilding the Houses of Parliament After the Great Fire of 1834
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Artikel-Nr:
9780198707196
Veröffentl:
2016
Erscheinungsdatum:
08.11.2016
Seiten:
304
Autor:
Caroline Shenton
Gewicht:
544 g
Format:
236x152x28 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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.
The saga of the epic battle to re-build the Houses of Parliament after the great fire of 1834, this is also the story of how the greatest construction programme in Britain for centuries produced one of the most famous and instantly recognizable buildings ever built
Prologue