Caroline Shenton

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Caroline Shenton is a British archivist, writer and historian. In 2013, her first popular history book, The Day Parliament Burned Down, won the Political Book of the Year Award.[1]

Education[]

Shenton holds a degree in medieval history from University of St. Andrews and a doctorate on the court of Edward III from Worcester College, Oxford. She trained as an archivist at University College London.[1]

Career[]

Shenton was a senior archivist at the National Archives from 1993 to 1999 and then moved to the Parliamentary Archives in London. She was its Director from 2008 to 2017. In 2017, she was a Political Writer in Residence at Gladstone’s Library. Shenton teaches Public History to postgraduate students at the Centre for Archives and Information Studies, school of humanities at the University of Dundee. Since 2017 she has been the Secretary to Council at Girton College, Cambridge.[1]

Awards[]

In 2013, Shenton's first popular history book The Day Parliament Burned Down won the Political Book of the Year Award. Her book was also shortlisted for the Longman-History Today Prize; it was a Book of the Year for the New Statesman, Mail on Sunday, Herald Scotland and Daily Telegraph.[2] Shenton's second book, Mr Barry's War, was a book of the year for The Daily Telegraph and BBC History Magazine.[1]

Books[]

  • The Day Parliament Burned Down (2012) [3][4]
  • Mr Barry's War. Rebuilding the Houses of Parliament after the Great Fire of 1834 (2016)[4]
  • National Treasures. Saving Britain's Art in World War Two (2021) [3][4]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d Who's Who 2022. London: A & C Black. 2021.
  2. ^ "Caroline Shenton". University of Dundee. Retrieved 2022-01-12.
  3. ^ a b "About". Caroline Shenton. Retrieved 2022-01-12.
  4. ^ a b c Shenton, Caroline. "Caroline Shenton". www.amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-02-14.

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