I love this paean to Pevsner by its production editor which conveys so much about its oddity – the fact that an astringent and very Germanic, scholarly, but dry architectural historian, who, when he first came to England, was still enthralled by Hitler (I learned this from his Birmingham landlady, before it was more widely known), should have embedded himself so deeply in the culture of rural, British culture, everyone who wants to help to develop specialist knowledge about buildings.

The office is closing down, when I assumed it was like the Forth Bridge and, once the second edition had been finished, would start on a revised version of London, half of which has now been demolished. Shouldn’t it have a preservation order ? It’s so much a part of architectural history, culture, knowledge and appreciation.

https://yalebooksblog.co.uk/2023/11/15/learning-to-love-pevsner-architectural-guides/