A Wonderful Tribute
Yesterday was the first day of an exhibition at Sheffield University of material from the archive of my late husband: Peter Blundell Jones: Architecture, Landscape and the City. I went to see it with our younger daughter (there will be an official opening later in the year). It covers the whole range of Peter’s work, […]
A poignant experience
I always feel at home in a library or an archive. When I made an appointment last week to visit Sheffield University library, it took me back to the many days I’ve spent doing research in the British Library, the V & A library, the Courtauld Institute, and elsewhere. I arrived at the library, and […]
Packing Up a Life
My husband, the architectural historian and critic, Peter Blundell Jones, died in August 2016. It all happened very fast. I didn’t think to ask him where he wanted his archive to go and he didn’t leave any instructions in his will. It is an important body of material. In the course of his career Peter […]