Charles O’Brien will explore the founding and development of the remarkable series of volumes.
Revising Pevsner: a Short History of the Buildings of … series 1951-2024
Charles O’Brien, joint Series Editor of the Pevsner Architectural Guides will explore the founding and development of the remarkable series of volumes covering the architecture of the cities, towns and villages of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. He will reflect on the huge task of revising and updating Nikolaus Pevsner’s original guides to England, which completed in 2024.
Charles O’Brien FSA is Listing and Architectural Research Director at Historic England. Until 2022 he was the joint Series Editor of the Pevsner Architectural Guides. He joined the series in 1997, where he worked fulltime on the research, writing and editing of the new editions. As author and co-author he has written the revised volumes to East London, Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire and Peterborough,Hampshire and Surrey. He is a former Commissioner of Historic England and former chair of their London Advisory Committee
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