The Age of Asa: Lord Briggs, Public Life and History in Britain since 1945

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: Asa Briggs and Public Life in Britain since 1945....Pages 1-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
The Interconnectedness of Things: Asa Briggs and Social History....Pages 23-45
A Little Bit of a Victorian? Asa Briggs and Victorian Studies....Pages 46-78
Victorian Capitalists and Middle-Class Formation: Reflections on Asa Briggs’ Birmingham....Pages 79-89
Asa Briggs and the Remaking of Australian Historiography....Pages 90-107
Asa Briggs and the Emergence of Labour History in Post-War Britain....Pages 108-141
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
From the Daily Mail to the BBC: Communications in Britain, c. 1896–1922....Pages 145-164
Broadcasting Carries On! Asa Briggs and the History of the Wartime BBC....Pages 165-183
Asa and the Epochs: The BBC, the Historian, the Institution and the Archive....Pages 184-209
Front Matter....Pages 211-211
Back to Yorkshire: ‘Asia’ Briggs at Leeds, 1955–1961....Pages 213-224
Asa Briggs and the University of Sussex, 1961–1976....Pages 225-247
Asa Briggs and the Opening Up of the Open University....Pages 248-266
From Worcester to Longman: Devising the History of the Book....Pages 267-287
Back Matter....Pages 288-311