Briggs, Baron Asa (1921–)
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Briggs saw social history as a form of total history, with the economics left in rather than with the politics taken out, and as such he played a key role in the development of the discipline. He also produced important works on the BBC and on Victorian Britain.
- Forenames:
- Asa
- Surname:
- Briggs
- Title:
- Baron
- Dates:
- 1921–
- Institutions:
- Open University
Social History Society
Society for the Study of Labour History
Standing Conference for Local History
University of Leeds
University of Sussex
Victorian Society - Significant posts:
- Chancellor, Open University
Professor of History, University of Sussex
Professor of Modern History, University of Leeds
- Influences:
- Barker, Ernest
Butterfield, Herbert
Postan, Michael Moissey
Power, Eileen - Contemporaries:
- Saville, John
- Influenced:
- Dyos, H. J.
- Themes:
- History of broadcasting
History of education
Labour history
Local history
Social history
Victorian history
- Biographies:
- Blackwell Dictionary of Historians
Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing
Interviews with Historians
Bibliography
- Bibliography from Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH)
- Bibliography of works by Asa Briggs - a web supplement to The Age of Asa: Lord Briggs, Public Life and History in Britain since 1945, ed. Miles Taylor (London: Palgrave, 2015)
Significant publications
- Asa Briggs, The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom (6 vols., Oxford, 1961–1996)
- Asa Briggs, Victorian Cities (1963)
Other reading
- Jim Obelkevich, 'Witness seminar: new developments in history in the 1950s and 1960s', Contemporary British History, 14, 4 (2000), 143–67
