30th May 2020
Andrew Ziminski, The Stone Mason: A History of Building Britain (John Murray, London; 2020)
It is undeniably the case that university-educated scholars have been responsible for the majority of written research into the buildings and architectural practices of the past. Consequently, when stone masons have been the subject of academic study, the focus has often been, primarily, on the masons’ intellectual role as designers of the medieval buildings which we see today. We should, of course, be grateful to historians...
