July 2024

This month sees the official launch of the new Buildings of England: Staffordshire with Yale University Press, and the very last title in this venerable series of architectural guides started by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner back in 1951. Martine is very delighted to have worked on both Nottinghamshire (2020) and now Staffordshire, a county that she conceded she knew far less of prior to picking up the camera last spring.

For pragmatism in terms of time and budget, she shared the task for this book’s images with James O.Davies, a seasoned historic buildings photographer, and the internal plates sit nicely together on the page, the outcome feels pretty seamless. Together with the ‘wrap party’ in London, Yale’s time with the series of revisions is now complete. To have had the privilege to work on two of the titles is something Martine will always regard with fondness.