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		<title>Wyatt&#8217;s the Difference?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 06:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CarolineShenton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lost buildings are always fascinating, and the old Palace of Westminster is no exception.  When I come across a building which still stands relating to it, I find it hard to resist picturing it in my mind&#8217;s eye.  There are parts of the precincts of Windsor Castle which must be very similar to the old Houses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Hot Date with Mr Turner</title>
		<link>http://www.carolineshenton.co.uk/my-hot-date-with-mr-turner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CarolineShenton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Old Palace of Westminster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Publicising the Book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The 1834 Fire]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m currently on a lecture tour for the Royal Oak Foundation (Americans in Alliance with the National Trust), and a few days ago I had the opportunity to visit one of the great Turner oils of the 1834 fire &#8211; which now hangs in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. During the writing of The Day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William Cobbett MP on the Old Houses of Parliament</title>
		<link>http://www.carolineshenton.co.uk/william-cobbett-mp-on-the-old-houses-of-parliament/</link>
		<comments>http://www.carolineshenton.co.uk/william-cobbett-mp-on-the-old-houses-of-parliament/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 19:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CarolineShenton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The 1834 Fire]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s William Cobbett&#8217;s 250th birthday today.  In honour of the occasion, here are the great radical&#8217;s views on sitting in the very uncomfortable House of Commons chamber in the years leading up to the calamitous fire of 1834: Why are we squeezed into so small a space that it is absolutely impossible that there should be calm and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Relics of the Old Palace of Westminster</title>
		<link>http://www.carolineshenton.co.uk/more-relics-of-the-old-palace-of-westminster-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.carolineshenton.co.uk/more-relics-of-the-old-palace-of-westminster-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 06:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CarolineShenton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historic Westminster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Old Palace of Westminster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The 1834 Fire]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[News of some other mementoes carved from the ruins of the old Palace of Westminster following the 1834 fire has reached me. This time they&#8217;ve been created from salvaged stonework, and depict a mysterious man and woman. They&#8217;ve been drawn to my attention by landscape architect and historian Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, author of The London Square, (Yale, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Eyewitness on an Omnibus Comes Forward</title>
		<link>http://www.carolineshenton.co.uk/an-eyewitness-on-an-omnibus-comes-forward/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 21:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CarolineShenton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historic Westminster]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Parliamentary History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The 1834 Fire]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Breaking news!  The Nichols family who edited and printed The Gentleman&#8217;s Magazine were also parliamentary printers and their office was at 25 Parliament Street. John Gough Nichols (1806-1873) sent a letter to his father &#8211; who was on holiday in Hastings with the rest of the family - the day after the fire, and this has now come to light [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Watling Street</title>
		<link>http://www.carolineshenton.co.uk/on-watling-street/</link>
		<comments>http://www.carolineshenton.co.uk/on-watling-street/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2012 23:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CarolineShenton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The 1834 Fire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing and Researching]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just before Christmas I found myself attending a week-long course in the City of London and, as chance would have it, the training centre was on the corner of Queen Street and Watling Street EC4.  Watling Street was the Roman road which ran from Dover to Wroxeter and beyond.  This London fragment of it still bears its ancient name, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Tale of Two Birthdays</title>
		<link>http://www.carolineshenton.co.uk/a-tale-of-two-birthdays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 06:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CarolineShenton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The 1834 Fire]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It’s not just Dickens’ 200th birthday, this is Pugin’s year too. One of the most pleasing aspects of the bicentenary celebrations of Charles Dickens’ birth is the way in which his early life before he became a novelist has been rediscovered. It turns out that in the early 1830s he was a Parliamentary reporter and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Relics of the Old Palace of Westminster</title>
		<link>http://www.carolineshenton.co.uk/relics-of-the-old-palace-of-westminster/</link>
		<comments>http://www.carolineshenton.co.uk/relics-of-the-old-palace-of-westminster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2012 10:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CarolineShenton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Old Palace of Westminster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Publicising the Book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The 1834 Fire]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my hopes on publishing The Day Parliament Burned Down was that new information which I had been unable to track down in my research would come to light when readers and audiences got to hear about the fire.  The most obvious one was to find out what ultimately happened to Chance the dog, but I also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Prayer for the High Court of Parliament to be read during their Session</title>
		<link>http://www.carolineshenton.co.uk/a-prayer-for-the-high-court-of-parliament-to-be-read-during-their-session/</link>
		<comments>http://www.carolineshenton.co.uk/a-prayer-for-the-high-court-of-parliament-to-be-read-during-their-session/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2012 17:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CarolineShenton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parliamentary History]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This year is the 350th anniversary of the Book of Common Prayer, the authorized text of services for the Church of England, and the accompanying Act of Uniformity. It&#8217;s interesting to note the Anglican Prayer for Parliament, as set down in 1662, in the gorgeous language of the BCP: MOST gratious God, we humbly beseech [...]]]></description>
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		<title>178 Years Ago Today&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.carolineshenton.co.uk/book-giveway-the-day-parliament-burned-down/</link>
		<comments>http://www.carolineshenton.co.uk/book-giveway-the-day-parliament-burned-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 05:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CarolineShenton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Publicising the Book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The 1834 Fire]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On the 178th anniversary of The Day Parliament Burned Down, I&#8217;m enjoying this cartoon&#8230; If you&#8217;d like to follow the story of the 1834 fire in real time today and tomorrow, go to Twitter and follow @ParliamentBurns.  See you there!]]></description>
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		<title>How Turner Captured Parliament Burning in 1834</title>
		<link>http://www.carolineshenton.co.uk/how-turner-captured-parliament-burning-in-1834/</link>
		<comments>http://www.carolineshenton.co.uk/how-turner-captured-parliament-burning-in-1834/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2012 06:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CarolineShenton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The 1834 Fire]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you enjoyed this, you might also like these other blogposts about JMW Turner: Inspiration Talking Titles On the Anniversary of Turner&#8217;s Death]]></description>
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		<title>Publication Day</title>
		<link>http://www.carolineshenton.co.uk/publication-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.carolineshenton.co.uk/publication-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 06:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CarolineShenton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historic Westminster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Old Palace of Westminster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parliamentary History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Publicising the Book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Publishing the Book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The 1834 Fire]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.carolineshenton.co.uk/?p=987</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s finally here! More&#8230; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>How I Got to Here</title>
		<link>http://www.carolineshenton.co.uk/how-i-got-to-here/</link>
		<comments>http://www.carolineshenton.co.uk/how-i-got-to-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2012 06:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CarolineShenton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Getting an Agent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Publicising the Book]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, with just a week to go until publication of The Day Parliament Burned Down, the story behind the story&#8230; When I began work at the Parliamentary Archives in 1999, I often found myself  having to tell readers in our public searchroom that nearly all of the historic Commons’ records were lost in the fire of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chance, the London Firemen&#8217;s Dog</title>
		<link>http://www.carolineshenton.co.uk/chance-the-london-firemens-dog/</link>
		<comments>http://www.carolineshenton.co.uk/chance-the-london-firemens-dog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CarolineShenton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The 1834 Fire]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Stop me not! But onward let me jog! For I am Chance, the London firemen&#8217;s dog!]]></description>
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		<title>A Regency Child&#8217;s Playing Cards</title>
		<link>http://www.carolineshenton.co.uk/a-regency-childs-playing-cards/</link>
		<comments>http://www.carolineshenton.co.uk/a-regency-childs-playing-cards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 05:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CarolineShenton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historic Westminster]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.carolineshenton.co.uk/?p=923</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago I went to an auction and bid for a cardboard box of miscellaneous bits and bobs.  Hidden among the items was a small box (not the reason for the bid) containing some children&#8217;s playing cards, dated about 1820. They are designed to teach Regency children their &#8216;Times Tables&#8217; and to add up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The She-Wolf of Westminster</title>
		<link>http://www.carolineshenton.co.uk/the-she-wolf-of-westminster/</link>
		<comments>http://www.carolineshenton.co.uk/the-she-wolf-of-westminster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2012 12:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CarolineShenton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historic Westminster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Old Palace of Westminster]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far, away I used to be a medieval historian. I still describe myself as that (&#8220;I&#8217;m a medievalist really&#8221;) when I can&#8217;t quite get my head round having written a book about a late Georgian subject. But my interest in 14th century history and 19th century Parliaments [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parliament Buildings of the World: No 7 &#8211; Malta</title>
		<link>http://www.carolineshenton.co.uk/parliament-buildings-of-the-world-no-5-malta/</link>
		<comments>http://www.carolineshenton.co.uk/parliament-buildings-of-the-world-no-5-malta/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2012 18:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CarolineShenton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parliaments of the World]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The current terrible weather in the UK makes me long for the Med. Some of the best sunshine I&#8217;ve had in recent years was in December (yes, December) 2010 when I went on trip to Malta. Being reminded of this, and the fabulous flight over Sicily close to a snow-capped Mount Etna to get there, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building the New Palace: A Watery Challenge</title>
		<link>http://www.carolineshenton.co.uk/building-the-new-palace/</link>
		<comments>http://www.carolineshenton.co.uk/building-the-new-palace/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2012 06:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CarolineShenton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historic Westminster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Old Palace of Westminster]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t often write about the new Palace of Westminster, because I think it&#8217;s had a lot of attention over the years, and can stand up for itself. I prefer to blog about the old Palace because far fewer people know about it, and I remain fascinated by the great hole in our knowledge about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just Arrived</title>
		<link>http://www.carolineshenton.co.uk/just-arrived/</link>
		<comments>http://www.carolineshenton.co.uk/just-arrived/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2012 18:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CarolineShenton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Old Palace of Westminster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parliamentary History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Publishing the Book]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a friend who is a special collections librarian commented, &#8220;First edition, first issue in first state dust-jacket&#8221;.]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;Greatest&#8221; Fire of the 19th Century</title>
		<link>http://www.carolineshenton.co.uk/the-greatest-fire-of-the-19th-century/</link>
		<comments>http://www.carolineshenton.co.uk/the-greatest-fire-of-the-19th-century/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:41:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CarolineShenton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One Hundred and Fifty-One Years ago today the huge Tooley Street fire of 1861 began. As the excellent @londonhistorian pointed out earlier today, this was the fire which led to the creation of the first public London Fire Brigade in 1866, and was the &#8220;greatest&#8221; fire in London since 1666.  The fire is famous for a number of reasons, including [...]]]></description>
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