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{{Infobox person
| honorific_prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name = The Lord Briggs
| image = Asa Briggs.jpg
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1921|5|7}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/b/7412/Asa+Briggs.aspx |title=The Rt Hon the Lord Briggs, FBA |work=Debretts |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224094950/http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/b/7412/Asa+Briggs.aspx |archive-date=24 December 2013 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
| birth_place = [[Keighley]], [[West Riding of Yorkshire]], England
| death_date
| death_place = [[Lewes]], [[East Sussex]], England
| occupation = Historian▼
| spouse = Susan Anne Banwell (1955–2016, his death)▼
▲| occupation = Historian
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▲| spouse = Susan Anne Banwell (1955–2016, his death)
▲| module = {{Infobox military person|embed=yes
| allegiance = {{Flag|United Kingdom}}
| branch = [[Royal Corps of Signals]] [[Intelligence Corps (United Kingdom)|Intelligence Corps]]
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==Early life==
Asa Briggs was born in [[Keighley]], [[West Riding of Yorkshire]] in 1921 to William Briggs, an engineer, and his wife Jane.<ref name="The Guardian 15 March 2016"/> He was educated at [[Oakbank School, Keighley#Grammar school|Keighley Boys' Grammar School]] and [[Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge]], graduating with a BA (first class) in History, in 1941, and a BSc in Economics (first class) from the [[University of London External Programme]], also in 1941.<ref>{{cite web| last=Bridges| first=Sophie| title=The Papers of Asa Briggs| url=http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0014%2FBRIG| publisher=Janus| access-date=11 September 2011}}</ref><ref name="The Guardian 15 March 2016"></ref>
==Military service==
During the [[World War II|Second World War]], from 1942 to 1945, Briggs served in the [[Intelligence Corps (United Kingdom)|Intelligence Corps]] and worked at the British wartime
==Academic career==
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Between 1961 and 1995, Briggs wrote a five-volume series on the history of broadcasting in the UK from 1922 to 1974 – essentially the history of the [[BBC]], who commissioned the work.<ref name="The Guardian 15 March 2016"/> Briggs' other works ranged from an account of the period that [[Karl Marx]] spent in London to the [[corporate history]] of British retailer [[Marks and Spencer]].<ref name="The Guardian 15 March 2016"/> In 1987, Lord Briggs was invited to be President of the [[Brontë Parsonage Museum#Brontë Society|Brontë Society]], a literary society established in 1893 in [[Haworth]], near [[Keighley, Yorkshire]]. He presided over the Society's centenary celebrations in 1993 and continued as President until he retired from the position in 1996.<ref>{{cite journal| last=Lemon| first=Charles| title=A Centenary History of The Brontë Society, 1893–1993| journal=Brontë Society Transactions| year=1993| volume=Supplement to Volume 20|page=105}}</ref> He was also President of the [[William Morris Society]] from 1978 to 1991 and President of the UK's [[Victorian Society]] from 1986 until his death.<ref>Martin Crick, ''The History of the William Morris Society 1955–2005'' (London, 2011); Paul Thompson, 'Asa Briggs 1921–2016', ''The Victorian: The Magazine of the Victorian Society'', 52 (July 2016), p. 5.</ref>
Briggs headed the Committee on Nursing government investigation in the early 1970s. The Committee's subsequent report became known as the [[Briggs Report]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Tierney |first=Alison J. |date=2022-10-24 |title=50 years since the Briggs Report {{!}} Blogs {{!}} Royal College of Nursing |url=https://www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-events/Blogs/50-years-since-the-briggs-report-201022 |access-date=2023-01-17 |website=The Royal College of Nursing |language=en}}</ref>
==Personal life==
==Select bibliography==
::# ''Volume II: Borough and City 1865-1938'' (1952)
Briggs contributed volume 2 - volume 1 was written by Conrad Gill (1952) and volume 3 by Anthony Sutcliffe and Roger Smith (1974)
*''The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom'', 5 volumes (Oxford University Press)
::# ''The Birth of Broadcasting''
::# ''The Golden Age of Wireless
::# ''The War of Words
::# ''Sound and Vision
::# ''Competition
* ''[[Victorian People]]: Reassessments of People, Institutions, Ideas and Events, 1851-1867'' (Odhams Press, 1954); reprinted in ''A Victorian Trilogy'' (Folio Society, 1996)
* ''The Age of Improvement, 1783–1867'' (Longmans, 1959) from "A History of England" series; reprinted as ''England in the Age of Improvement 1783-1867'' (Folio Society, 1999)
* ''The Channel Islands, Occupation and Liberation 1940–1945'', Batsford Books, London, {{ISBN|0-7134-7822-5}}▼
* ''Victorian Cities'' (Odhams Press, 1963); reprinted in ''A Victorian Trilogy'' (Folio Society, 1996)
* ''[[Karl Marx|Marx]] in London: An Illustrated Guide'' (BBC Books, 1982); reprinted with John Callow (Lawrence & Wishart, 2007)
* ''A Social History of England'' (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1983); reprinted and updated (Weidenfeld, 1994)
* ''[[Toynbee Hall]]: The First Hundred Years'' (
* ''[[Marks & Spencer]]
* ''The Franchise Affair: Creating Fortunes and Failures in Independent Television'' (Century, 1986);
▲* ''Marks & Spencer Ltd: A Centenary History'', Marks & Spencer 1884–1984
* ''Victorian Things'' (Batsford, 1988); reprinted in ''A Victorian Trilogy'' (Folio Society, 1996)
▲* ''The Franchise Affair'', 1986 (with [[Joanna Spicer]])<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Briggs|first1=Asa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GkQaAAAAMAAJ|title=The Franchise Affair: Creating Fortunes and Failures in Independent Television|last2=Spicer|first2=Joanna|date=1986|publisher=Century|isbn=978-0-7126-1201-2|language=en}}</ref>
* ''A Victorian Portrait: Victorian Life and Values As Seen Through the Work of Studio Photographers'' (Cassell, 1989); with Archie Miles
▲* ''[[German occupation of the Channel Islands|The Channel Islands
* ''A Social History of the Media'', 2002 (together with [[Peter Burke (historian)|Peter Burke]])▼
* ''
▲* ''A Social History of the Media: From [[Johannes Gutenberg|Gutenberg]] to the Internet'' (Polity Press, 2002
* ''Special Relationships: People and Places'', 2012▼
* ''Secret Days: Codebreaking in [[Bletchley Park]]: A Memoir of Hut Six and the [[Enigma Machine]]'' (Frontline, 2011) {{ISBN|978-1-84832-615-6}}
▲* ''History of Birmingham'', three volumes
▲* ''Special Relationships: People and Places'' (Frontline, 2012)
* ''Loose Ends and Extras'' (Frontline, 2014)
==References==
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== External links ==
* [https://archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk/repositories/9/resources/1445 Some of Asa Briggs' papers], mostly relating to a biography of [[Michael Young, Baron Young of Dartington|Michael Young]], held at [[Churchill Archives Centre]]
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