It is with great sadness that the AA learns of the passing of Mary Banham, a close friend of the AA and Honorary Member. Together with her late husband Reyner Banham, Mary was one of the leading UK architectural critics of the last century. Twenty-five years after the Festival of Britain, Mary co-edited, A Tonic to the Nation, an account of the festival filled with recollections from many big names associated with the festival and comments from ordinary people who visited the event. Two years ago, Nabila Mahdi (AADipl 2011) interviewed Mary about her own recollections of the festival as part of the AA Conversations series online which can be read here. In 1996 Mary donated a collection of around 6,000 slides taken by Reyner Banham to the AA Photo Library. Read more about the Reyner Banham Collection here