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In 1976 he returned to Oxford to become [[Provost (education)|Provost]] of [[Worcester College, Oxford|Worcester College]], retiring from the post in 1991.
He was [[Chancellor (education)|Chancellor]] of the [[Open University]] (1978–94) and in May 1979 was awarded an honorary degree as Doctor of the University. He
Between 1961 and 1995, Briggs wrote a five-volume text 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 [[Victorian Society]] (UK) 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>
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