Caroline Shenton

Gebundenes Buch

Mr Barry's War

Rebuilding the Houses of Parliament After the Great Fire of 1834

Beschreibung

The saga of the epic battle to re-build the Houses of Parliament after the great fire of 1834, this is also the story of how the greatest construction programme in Britain for centuries produced one of the most famous and instantly recognizable buildings ever built

Autor

Caroline Shenton was Director of the Parliamentary Archives at Westminster from 2008 to 2014, and prior to that was a senior archivist at Parliament and The National Archives at Kew. Her first book, The Day Parliament Burned Down, won the inaugural Political Book of the Year Award in 2013. It was also shortlisted for a number of other prizes, including the Longman-History Today Prize, and was a Book of the Year for the Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, Daily Mail, and Herald Scotland. This is its sequel.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780198707196
• ISBN-10: 0198707193
• Artikelnr.: 45175602