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Walk the Day Parliament Burned Down

8 October 2014 By Caroline Shenton

When I wrote The Day Parliament Burned Down I didn’t know anything about the economics of the book trade.  Now I do.  What I know is a lot more about how high-street bookshops are struggling in the face of massive competition from supermarkets and Amazon, and that we should do all we can to support them (see my next post coming up on Saturday).

In that spirit, I was delighted and amazed when two enterprising London tour guides, Richard and Steve, got in touch earlier this year to say that they had based a whole walk around the 1834 fire and would be launching it on the anniversary itself.  I love that The Day Parliament Burned Down is generating its own little economy around it for other people as well as bookshops, so do check out Trails of the City’s walk here: and let me know how you get on with it.  Walks are happening on Thursday 16 October 6.30pm, Thursday 23 October 6.30pm, Thursday 30 October 6.30pm, and Wednesday 5 November 6.30pm.  What a great idea!

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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.

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