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Asa Briggs

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Gender Male
Death7 years ago
Date of birth May 7,1921
Zodiac sign Taurus
Born Keighley
United Kingdom
Date of died March 15,2016
DiedLewes
United Kingdom
SpouseSusan Anne Banwell
Battles and wars Second World War
Job Historian
Education University of London
Sidney Sussex College
Keighley Boys' Grammar School
University of London International Programmes
Date of Reg.
Date of Upd.
ID472127

Victorian cities
Victorian things
A Social History of England
The age of improvement, 1783-1867
Victorian People
Secret Days: Code-breaking in Bletchley Park
The history of broadcasting in the United Kingdom.
Modern Europe, 1789-Present
Governing the BBC
Special Relationships: People and Places
Marx in London
The Birth of Broadcasting
Chartist studies
Victorian People: A Reassessment of Persons and Themes, 1851–67
The Collected Essays of Asa Briggs
Toynbee Hall: The First Hundred Years
A Victorian Portrait: Victorian Life and Values as Seen Through the Work of Studio Photographers
Michael Young
A History of Longmans and Their Books, 1724-1990: Longevity in Publishing
The Power of Steam
Chartism
Wine for sale
Haut-Brion: An Illustrious Lineage
The History of Bethlem
Go to It
Fins de Siecle
Loose Ends and Extras
Serious Pursuits: Communications and Education
Modern Europe 1789-1989
The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom: Volume I: The Birth of Broadcasting
Essays in Labour History, 1886-1923
The Channel Islands: Occupation and Liberation 1940-1945
Complete Poems of Asa Briggs
Essays in the History of Publishing in Celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the House of Longman, 1724-1974
A study of the work of Seebohm Rowntree 1871-1954
The franchise affair
Victorian Portrait: Victorian Life and Values
Victorian Music: A Social and Cultural History
Karl Marx, the Legacy: From the BBC TV Series Written and Presented by Asa Briggs
A Dictionary of Twentieth-century World Biography
A History of the Royal College of Physicians of London
The Golden Age of Wireless 1927-1939
The War of Words 1939-1945
Cities, Class and Communication: Essays in Honour of Asa Briggs
Report of the Committee on Nursing
Twentith Century History and Biography
Cities and Countrysides: British and American Experience (1860-1914)
Education Through Part-time Study: George Birkbeck's Vision in the Light of 21st Century Needs and Opportunities
Social History and Human Experience
Communications and culture, 1823-1973
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Asa Briggs Life story


Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs was an English historian. He was a leading specialist on the Victorian era, and the foremost historian of broadcasting in Britain. He was made a life peer in 1976.

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