Caroline Shenton

Archivist, historian and writer

Safe As Houses – An Article for Historic Houses Magazine

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Here’s an article I’ve written for the Historic Houses Association autumn 2021 magazine, on the uses their members’ homes were put to in storing London’s collections during the Second World War, including wonderful Boughton House, Belvoir Castle and Haddon Hall.  Read the article now…

About Caroline Shenton

Dr Caroline Shenton is an archivist and historian. She was formerly Director of the Parliamentary Archives in London, and before that was a senior archivist at the National Archives. Her book The Day Parliament Burned Down won the Political Book of the Year Award in 2013 and Mary Beard called it 'microhistory at its absolute best' while Dan Jones considered it 'glorious'. Its acclaimed sequel, Mr Barryís War, about the rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster, was a Book of the Year in 2016 for The Daily Telegraph and BBC History Magazine and was described by Lucy Worsley as 'a real jewel, finely wrought and beautiful'. During 2017 Caroline was Political Writer in Residence at Gladstone's Library.