Caroline Shenton
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Caroline Shenton

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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 Barry’s War 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'. In 2017, Caroline was Political Writer in Residence at Gladstone's Library. Her third book, National Treasures, was published in November 2021. You can fallow Caroline on Twitter @dustshoveller and sign up for her author newsletter on her website at www.carolineshenton.co.uk/news.
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