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 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 11 Asa Briggs and the University of Sussex, 1961–1976

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

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