More frustration. Flew to Edinburgh to attend an annual reunion with university friends, but delayed coming back by bad weather. In the end we had to abandon the return flights and get a train back to London the day after – which could have been seven hours of prime time for working on the book but I had neither laptop nor printout with me, nor any way of getting the files on my flashdisk printed out in time. I was chewing the train carpet with frustration at the lost opportunity, all the way home…
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.
