Started to re-watch "Travels with Pevsner" on #BBC #iPlayer. I really enjoyed this series when it came out 30 years. (Well, OK, not the Janet Street-Porter episode.)

Brought up short about 30 seconds in when the voice-over describes Pevsner's "Buildings of England" as unique. This is a typical bit of British exceptionalism!

Pevsner was really annoyed when he first visited Britain that there were no handbooks to buildings along the lines of the German Dehio series.

Guess what he did.