Chapter 17 : Dan Snow, Caroline Shenton & Kamal Ahmed

Dan Snow's book is On This Day in History, it brings to life a key event that happened on each day of the year. Caroline Shenton's book The Day Parliament Burned Down, tells the gripping story of the fire over the course of one fateful day and night. Kamal Ahmed's book is The Life and Times of a Very British Man. A revealing, honest and often comic coming-of-age story about growing up in 1970s Britain on the boundaries of race.

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