Chris Pickford will be speaking in the Great Hall of the Lord Leycester Hospital at 19.45 pm on Tuesday 1 November

The Warwickshire volume of the ‘Buildings of England’, with which Alexandra Wedgwood assisted Nikolaus Pevsner, was published in 1966. Both the buildings of the county and understanding of its architectural history have evolved hugely since then. The long process of revising Pevsner has at last reached Warwickshire, and Chris Pickford, formerly the County Archivist of Bedfordshire, has returned to his native county to take on the task. He is in the middle of his research, and the new edition, covering Warwickshire without ‘Greater Birmingham’, is not planned to be published until 2015. He will be able both to tell us about the processes of study and revision, and perhaps bring early news of discoveries about some of the buildings – though Warwick itself has not yet been reached.

This event is part of The Warwick Society’s program, but all customers of our shops are welcome to attend free of charge.