The Age of Asa

Chapter 1 Introduction: Asa Briggs and Public Life in Britain since 1945

Chapter 2 The Interconnectedness of Things: Asa Briggs and Social History

Chapter 3 A Little Bit of a Victorian? Asa Briggs and Victorian Studies

Chapter 4 Victorian Capitalists and Middle-Class Formation: Reflections on Asa Briggs’ Birmingham

Chapter 5 Asa Briggs and the Remaking of Australian Historiography

Chapter 6 Asa Briggs and the Emergence of Labour History in Post-War Britain

Chapter 7 From the Daily Mail to the BBC: Communications in Britain, c. 1896–1922

Chapter 8 Broadcasting Carries On! Asa Briggs and the History of the Wartime BBC

Chapter 9 Asa and the Epochs: The BBC, the Historian, the Institution and the Archive

Chapter 10 Back to Yorkshire: ‘Asia’ Briggs at Leeds, 1955–1961

Chapter 12 Asa Briggs and the Opening Up of the Open University

Chapter 13 From Worcester to Longman: Devising the History of the Book