{"id":16108,"date":"2024-08-28T15:32:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T14:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=16108"},"modified":"2024-08-28T15:32:02","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T14:32:02","slug":"new-book-staffordshire-pevsners-the-buildings-of-england-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2024\/08\/28\/new-book-staffordshire-pevsners-the-buildings-of-england-series\/","title":{"rendered":"New book: Staffordshire &#8211; Pevsner&#8217;s The Buildings of England series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest edition of <em>The Critic<\/em> magazine has <a href=\"https:\/\/thecritic.co.uk\/midlands-marvels-and-mysteries\/\">&#8220;Midlands marvels and mysteries&#8221;<\/a>. Being a very long review of the new book <em>Staffordshire (Pevsner&#8217;s The Buildings of England series)<\/em> (2024). The review is freely available online&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3T82IVB\">available now<\/a>, as a chunky 844-page \u00a337 hardback. An ideal Christmas present, I&#8217;d suggest, for someone interested in such things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest edition of The Critic magazine has &#8220;Midlands marvels and mysteries&#8221;. Being a very long review of the new book Staffordshire (Pevsner&#8217;s The Buildings of England series) (2024). The review is freely available online&#8230; &#8220;This greatly enlarged, updated guide to the architecture of Staffordshire completes the comprehensive revision of the Buildings of England series. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}