Berkshire

Revised and updated from its earlier edition, this latest volume in the Pevsner Architectural Guides series provides a comprehensive guide to the significant buildings of Berkshire, ranging from the "Silicon Valley" commercial buildings of Reading, to Slough (the place on which John Betjeman invited friendly bombs to fall), and to Windsor Castle and St. George's Chapel.

Dr Geoffrey Tyack is a Fellow of Kellogg College, University of Oxford, Director of the Stanford University Centre in Oxford, and editor of the Georgian Group Journal. His other books include Sir James Pennethorne and the Making of Victorian London (1992). He lives in Oxford, within sight of pre-1974 Berkshire.
Dr Simon Bradley is editor of the Pevsner Architectural Guides. He is author of two hardback Buildings of England volumes, London I: The City of London and London 6: Westminster, and the paperback London: The City Churches.
Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-83), one of the most learned and stimulating twentieth-century writers on art and architecture, began his career in Germany. He later became Professor of History of Art at Birkbeck College (University of London), Slade Professor of Fine Art at Cambridge and a Gold Medallist of the Royal Institute of British Architects. In addition to The Buildings of England, first published from 1951 to 1974, be was founding editor of The Pelican History of Art and of The Buildings of Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Among his many publications are An Outline of European Architecture, Pioneers of Modern Design and A History of Building Types.