Lynn Pearson is an independent architectural historian, writer and photographer specialising in architectural ceramics, postwar decorative arts and the buildings of the brewing industry. She has been based in Newcastle upon Tyne since 1984. She has published seventeen books, including pioneering works on seaside architecture, the architectural history of British breweries, and the architecture of cooperative living, and over fifty articles, reports and conference papers. She studied at the universities of Warwick, Birmingham and Newcastle upon Tyne, and has been a Research Fellow at the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, University of Birmingham, and the School of Art & Design, University of Wolverhampton (1999-2003).

Her Tile Gazetteer: A Guide to British Tile and Architectural Ceramics Locations (Richard Dennis, 2005), written for the Tiles and Architectural Ceramics Society (TACS), was runner-up and highly commended in the  2005 National Reference Book of the Year Awards, sponsored by Nielsen BookData. She is also Editor of the TACS Journal. Current projects include postwar British murals, historic concrete, and a study of English breweries (with the Brewery History Society). Her Played on Tyne and Wear, a study of sporting architectural heritage in the northeast, will be published by English Heritage in 2009; it is part of the groundbreaking Played in Britain series. You can link to Lynn's blog here.

COMING SOON! Due for publication December 2008 is A Field Guide to Postwar Murals (Blue House Books). Featuring superb colour photography, this handy 80-page guide to British mural art should be available before Christmas at a stocking-filler price of £9.95. Look out for more details here. And JUST PUBLISHED October 2008 the new revised edition of Piers and Other Seaside Architecture.

Did you attend the TACS Postwar Murals Study Day on Tuesday 20th November 2007 at The Gallery, Cowcross Street, London? You can download my paper on Postwar British Murals in pdf format here, and click the Flickr link (left) to see a set of photos from my presentation - look for a set labelled Postwar Murals Study Day. My paper Anything But Football: A critical survey of sporting images in the decorative arts was given at the Annual Conference of the British Society of Sports History on 5-7 September 2008 in Eastbourne. Download the paper as a pdf or see images in the Sport and Decorative Arts set on Flickr (see left).