Nearly 80 years after it was conceived, an update to a peerless series of guides to the country’s architecture concludes with a detailed Staffordshire handbook that, typically, isn’t just an exercise ...

I cannot have been alone in this: as the pandemic took hold last year and the country went into lockdown, I found the city I live in, London, transformed and by no means entirely for the worse. With ...

IN 1933, SHORTLY AFTER fleeing the Nazis and arriving in London, a young German art historian wrote to the wife he had left behind in Gottingen. He had found a tiny room in Hampstead Garden Suburb, he ...

As the British landscape has evolved, so have Pevsner guides, still, in their 56th year, mapping the buildings of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Can any other part of the world boast of such an ...

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On the completed revisions to Nikolaus Pevsner’s Buildings of England series. Pevsner had acquired a doctorate from Leipzig University in 1924, when he was not quite twenty-three; his thesis was on ...

Nikolaus Pevsner was a German émigré whose series on English architecture has become a classic. Now, says Peter Parker, there is a similarly enlightening guide to the man himself: The Life by Susie ...

Pevsner’s county Architectural Guides were written in the days of index cards and quiet libraries. The days started with a promenade past the town’s notable buildings; mornings and afternoons were to ...

Darcey Bussell on Margot Fonteyn; Pevsner architectural guides; Daniel Craig and David Oyelowo on Broadway; How to get a Christmas number 1. Show more Darcey Bussell discusses her new documentary, ...

Darcey Bussell discusses her new documentary, Darcey Bussell: Looking For Margot, in which she traces the dramatic life and career of the dancer who inspired her own ballet career. The survey of every ...