16/01/2025 8:00 pm

The Day Parliament Burned Down

Location: St Mary’s Parish Church, Barnes

Lecturer: Dr Caroline Shenton, a historian and archivist, talks about the biggest fire in London between the Great Fire of London in 1666 and the Blitz.

In the early evening of 16 October 1834 a huge ball of fire exploded through the roof of the Houses of Parliament, creating an enormous blaze. The fire destroyed much of Parliament’s glorious old buildings and their contents.

The Day Parliament Burned Down Publisher: OUP Oxford (2012) Paperback, Hardback, Kindle