Pevsner, Nikolaus. "The Englishness of English Art: 1955". The Reith Lectures – BBC Radio 4 . Retrieved 6 December 2017.

The seven talks run 24th January – 8th March 2023 but include a recording that can be watched any time. The old repertoire pretty much sees you through; the occasional times when you have to use something new are technical terms for engineering in recent buildings…but the old glossary of terms still serves pretty much everywhere you go!In some published volumes and in advance publicity, certain titles were announced which were ultimately never published. A number of factors accounted for this, including the readiness of parts of the text covering certain areas and the anticipated size of the volumes. Unpublished titles included: Games, Stephen; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2002). Pevsner on art and architecture: the radio talks. Methuen. ISBN 9780413712202. Pevsner was also contracted, as the same time as the Buildings series, to edit and commission a series of handbooks on the history of art and architecture for Pelican. This was to become The Pelican History of Art series. The first volume was Painting in Britain, 1530 to 1790 by Ellis Waterhouse, published in 1953. The series is still going today and is now published by Yale University Press. Completing the Buildings of Scotland series with a revised Lothian by Jane Geddes & Charles O’Brien Bridget Cherry; Simon Bradley, eds. (2001). The Buildings of England: A Celebration. London: Penguin Collectors' Society. ISBN 978-0-952-74013-1.

Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh: Honorary Graduates". hw.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 18 April 2016 . Retrieved 7 April 2016. The existing guides of England, (for example, Arthur Mee'sKings England series) mainly concentrated on the picturesque landscape, supported by historical anecdotes and biographical details. There were two scholarly surveys of architecture but these were chunky volumes, really only suitable to libraries, and were still incomplete with the completion time estimated in the hundreds of years. And Huntingdonshire and Peterborough; people aren’t really sure what that means, because they were abolished as counties in the 70s. Again, other than people who live there it’s not somewhere people are particularly familiar with. Which is a shame really because there is a distinct architectural identity. But in terms of interesting facts … it’s interesting in that there is quite a lot more than you imagine. I felt, when I was there, that I was constantly seeing things that I just hadn’t expected, particularly with the quality of the buildings.Grigson, Geoffrey, Recollections, Mainly of Writers and Artists (Hogarth Press, 1984), quoted in Harries 2011, p. 273. MUNICIPAL OFFICES (former Town Hall), Hill Street. 1893 by WJ Ancell; mixed Renaissance. Originally with an ornate gabled skyline, destroyed in the Second World War. Remodelled by Gordon Jeeves, 1952. Interior rebuilding planned 1981. Pevsner began work on the series in the autumn of 1945 and he would have embarked on his first trip the following year, probably around Middlesex (the county he lived closest to, as he lived in Hampstead). Pevsner did not make any moves to extend the series to the Isle of Man or Channel Islands. However, a volume covering the Isle of Man was published in early 2023. [3]