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.
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Asa Briggs has been a prominent figure in post-war cultural life - as a pioneering historian, a far-sighted educational reformer, and a sensitive chronicler of the way in which broadcasting and communication more generally have shaped modern society.