Caroline Shenton

Archivist, historian and writer

Signed Copies for Christmas 2014

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A few people have asked me recently if I can post specially-signed copies of The Day Parliament Burned Down to them for Christmas. The answer is: yes!

The costs, including first class postage within the UK, and packing, are:

£12 paperback
£16 hardback

Please use the ‘contact’ page on the website, letting me know your postal address and the message you’d like signed on your choice of hardback or paperback, to get things started.

Closing date for orders is 17 December.

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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.