The Age of Asa

Preface; David Cannadine Introduction: Asa Briggs and Public Life in Britain Since 1945; Miles Taylor PART I: HISTORY 1. The Interconnectedness of Things: Asa Briggs and Social History; Rohan McWilliam 2. A Little Bit of a Victorian? Asa Briggs and Victorian Studies; Martin Hewitt 3. Victorian Capitalists and Middle-Class Formation: Reflections on Asa Briggs' Birmingham; Francesca Carnevali and Jennifer Aston 4. Asa Briggs and the Remaking of Australian historiography; Frank Bongiorno 5. Asa Briggs and the Emergence of Labour History in Post-War Britain; John McIlroy PART II: BROADCASTING 6. From the Daily Mail to the BBC: Communications in Britain, c. 1896-1922; James Thompson 7. Broadcasting Carries On !: Asa Briggs and the History of the Wartime BBC; Sian Nicholas 8. Asa and the Epochs: the BBC, the Historian, the Institution and the Archive; Jean Seaton PART III: UNIVERSITIES 9. Back to Yorkshire: 'Asia' Briggs at Leeds, 1955-1961; Malcolm Chase 10. Asa Briggs and the University of Sussex, 1961-1976; Matthew Cragoe 11. Asa Briggs and the Opening up of the Open University; Daniel Weinbren 12. From Worcester to Longmans: Devising the History of the Book; James Raven