The latest edition of The Critic magazine has “Midlands marvels and mysteries”. Being a very long review of the new book Staffordshire (Pevsner’s The Buildings of England series) (2024). The review is freely available online…

“This greatly enlarged, updated guide to the architecture of Staffordshire completes the comprehensive revision of the Buildings of England series. The version is a great improvement in terms of the splendid illustrations alone, replacing the somewhat murky half-tones of the original.”

North Staffordshire gets prime place, at least in the key visuals, with Wootton Lodge (Staffordshire Moorlands) on the front cover and the Wedgwood Memorial Institute (Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent) on the back cover. And, so far as I can tell from a combination of the review and the blurb, mid and north Staffordshire are not at all overlooked. The book is available now, as a chunky 844-page £37 hardback. An ideal Christmas present, I’d suggest, for someone interested in such things.