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EBOOK Day Parliament Burned Down
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191611780
EAN: C6EBC229EB
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Stron: 360
Data wydania: 2012
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In the early evening of 16 October 1834, to the horror of bystanders, a huge ball        of fire exploded through the roof of the Houses of Parliament, creating a blaze so        enormous that it could be seen by the King and Queen at Windsor, and from        stagecoaches on top of the South Downs. In front of hundreds of thousands of        witnesses the great conflagration destroyed Parliament's glorious old buildings and        their contents. No one who witnessed the disaster would ever forget it.The events of        that October day in 1834 were as shocking and significant to contemporaries as the        death of Princess Diana was to us at the end of the 20th century - yet today this        national catastrophe is a forgotten disaster, not least because Barry and Pugin's        monumental new Palace of Westminster has obliterated all memory of its 800 year-old        predecessor. Rumours as to the fire's cause were rife. Was it arson, terrorism, the        work of foreign operatives, a kitchen accident, careless builders, oreven divine        judgement on politicians?In this, the first full-length book on the subject, head        Parliamentary Archivist Caroline Shenton unfolds the gripping story of the fire over        the course of that fateful day and night. In the process, she paints a skilful        portrait of the political and social context of the time, including details of the        slums of Westminster and the frenzied expansion of the West End; the plight of the        London Irish; child labour, sinecures and corruption in high places; fire-fighting        techniques and floatingengines; the Great Reform Act and the new Poor Law; Captain        Swing and arson at York Minster; the parlous state of public buildings and records        in the Georgian period; and above all the symbolism which many contemporaries saw in        the spectacular fall of a national icon.

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