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One Year On…And the Search Continues

9 August 2013 By Caroline Shenton

Today is the first anniversary of publication of the book.  A lot’s happened.  Many lovely people have got in touch to say how much they enjoyed it. New accounts and relics of the fire have come to light.  The reviewers liked it.  It was book of the week/year in some papers.  And – ahem – it was nominated for various prizes and even won one.

But one thing hasn’t happened, and that’s the discovery of the body of Chance (if you don’t know who he is, you’ll have to read the book!).  The search is still on.  Let me know if you find him, and in the meantime I’m on the lookout for him day and night…

A possible contender for Chance at the National Railway Museum, York…

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Filed Under: Publishing the Book, The 1834 Fire, Writing and Researching

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.

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