Mr Barry''s War - Rebuilding the Houses of Parliament After the Great Fire of 1834

Zusatztext Shenton brilliantly outlines how from conception to completion, the design and construction of the new Palace of Westminster were a fearsome battleground ... [Parliamentary] colleagues who want to consider the current options and challenges should read Caroline Shenton's Mr Barry's War. Informationen zum 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. Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung 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 Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue FIRE (1834-1837) 1: A New Tooth 2: A Clump of Thistles 3: A Beautiful and Appropriate Design WATER (1837-1843) 4: A Clear Understanding 5: A Bondage Worse than the Egyptians 6: A Very Heavy Expence AIR (1844-1852) 7: A Regular Fix 8: A Very Difficult Work 9: A Metropolitan Asylum EARTH (1852-1860) 10: A Monstrous Failure 11: A More Cunning and Intriguing Man 12: The Great Work Epilogue Select Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Caroline Shenton, Shenton Caroline
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.09.2016
• EAN: 9780198707196
• ISBN: 978-0-19-870719-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Architecture: public, commercial and industrial buildings