Bristol

Pevsner's Buildings of England series, a largely single‐handed, county‐by‐county survey of “every building of architectural significance” in England, is a national institution. Originally published by Penguin between 1951 and 1974, its volumes can be seen as one part of an intimate exploration by publishers of the heritage of the British, and, more particularly, the English, provinces, inspired partly by the traumatic losses and threats of losses of two world wars and partly by the spread of car ownership in the 1930s and 1950s. The interwar writings of H.V. Morton and H.J. Massingham, the vast output of Batsford Books, Arthur Mee's...