Editing Nikolaus Pevsner (section)

== Other postwar work ==
[[File:Euston Arch.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|right|The scandalous demolition of the [[Euston Arch]] in 1962 drove Pevsner and others to redouble their efforts to save [[Victorian architecture|Victorian buildings]]]]
As well as ''The Buildings of England'', Pevsner proposed the ''Pelican History of Art'' series (which began in 1953), a multi-volume survey on the model of the German ''Handbuch der Kunstwissenschaft'' (English: "Handbook of the Science of Art"), which he would himself edit. Many individual volumes are regarded as classics.

In 1946, Pevsner made the first of several broadcasts on the [[BBC Third Programme]], presenting nine talks in all up to 1950, examining painters and European art eras. By 1977 he had presented 78 talks for the BBC, including the [[Reith Lectures]] in 1955 – a series of six broadcasts, entitled ''The Englishness of English Art'',<ref name="Reith">{{Cite web | title = The Englishness of English Art: 1955 | last = Pevsner | first = Nikolaus | work = The Reith Lectures – BBC Radio 4 | access-date = 6 December 2017 | url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00h9llv }}</ref> for which he explored the qualities of art which he regarded as particularly English, and what they said about the English national character.{{sfn|Games|Pevsner|2002|p=}} His [[A. W. Mellon lectures]] in Fine Art at the [[National Gallery of Art]], Washington, D.C., were published in 1976 as ''A History of Building Types''.{{sfn|Harries|2011|p=715}}

Pevsner was a founding member in 1957 of the [[Victorian Society]], the national charity for the study and protection of [[Victorian architecture|Victorian]] and [[Edwardian architecture]] and other arts.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://hbap.pdfsrv.co.uk/customers/HBAP/CQ56694/Vol%2028%201984/14/‘Obituary%20Sir%20Nikolaus%20Pevsner’%20by%20Matthew%20Saunders.pdf|first=Matthew|last=Saunders|title=Sir Nikolaus Pevsner: Obituary|publisher=[[Ancient Monuments Society]]|access-date=15 August 2024}}</ref> In 1964 he was invited to become its chairman, and steered it through its formative years, fighting alongside [[John Betjeman]], [[Hugh Casson]] and others to save houses, churches, railway stations and other monuments of the Victorian age. He served for ten years (1960–70) as a member of the National Advisory Council on Art Education (or Coldstream Committee), campaigning for art history to be a compulsory element in the curriculum of art schools. He was elected a Fellow of the [[British Academy]] in 1965 and awarded the Gold Medal of the [[Royal Institute of British Architects]] in 1967.{{sfn|Harries|2011|pp=672–3}}

Having assumed British citizenship in 1946, Pevsner was appointed a [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] in 1953 and was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] in 1969 "for services to art and architecture". Pevsner also received an [[Honorary degree|Honorary Doctorate]] from [[Heriot-Watt University]] in 1975.<ref name="HW">{{Cite web|url=http://www1.hw.ac.uk/graduation/honorary-graduates.htm|title=Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh: Honorary Graduates|website=hw.ac.uk|access-date=2016-04-07|archive-date=18 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160418163907/http://www1.hw.ac.uk/graduation/honorary-graduates.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>