A great treat has arrived in the post – an advance copy of Gill Hedley’s new biography of  Henry Flitcroft, to which I was generously asked to write an introduction, mainly because in April 2016 I wrote a somewhat disparaging blog post about Flitcoft as ‘one of those rather dull, first generation Palladians, who made architecture less interesting than it was when Vanbrugh and Hawksmoor were at the Office of Works’.  Suffice it to say that Gill Hedley has demonstrated that Flitcroft’s life and work were far from dull and that, by investigating his career in such depth, she has demonstrated a great deal about mid-eighteenth-century architectural practice.

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