S2 E11: Caroline Shenton on the Palace of Westminster

from Why Parliament Works · host Leader of the House of Commons

Dr Caroline Shenton, historian, archivist and author of 'The Day Parliament Burned Down' and 'Mr Barry's War', discusses the disastrous 1834 fire which destroyed the Palace of Westminster and its subsequent protracted rebuilding with Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg. 

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