ABSTRACT
Nearly every history syllabus gives some attention to architecture, which provides not only a setting but also a visual vocabulary, invaluable for that highly characteristic mode of historical memory - recognition. Words and images have to be built up together. Reference books of the dictionary type are useful throughout the age-range 9-18. It is sometimes difficult to assign histories of architecture exactly to an age-range, as their illustrations are often useful for children who might find the text too difficult. The photographic plates are of a very high standard and are supplemented with plans, reconstructions, sections, isometric drawings, etc. 'The rebuilding movement has remained unnoticed because historians, unlike archaeologists, have yet to learn to look over hedges and to treat visual evidence as of equal value to documentary'.
