Parliament's Forgotten Fire
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Channel: Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) · 2012 · Education
Caroline Shenton, author of The Day Parliament Burned Down (OUP, 2012), talks about a monumental event in the nineteenth century that changed the face of London forever -- the largely forgotten story of the burning of the original parliamentary buildings. http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199646708.do
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