Mastodawn

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.

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Rhys 6d ago

@SK53 I didn't know this was on iPlayer - thanks for the tip off. I saw lots of Pevsner county guides in the second hand bookshop in y Fenni recently and had to control myself.

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SK53

@rhysw I went overboard years ago, but haven't kept up with revisions, so the current collection is about 10 volumes out-of-date.

The older books are still very useful as they are more portable.

I get emails from Yale UP on current Pevsner news which is how I found out.