Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs
Historian, Author
1921 –
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Who is Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs?
Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs is an English historian, one of the most respected historians who has written on the Victorian era. In particular, his trilogy, Victorian People, Victorian Cities, and Victorian Things made a lasting mark on how historians view the nineteenth century. He was made a life peer in 1976.
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- Born
- May 7, 1921
Keighley - Also known as
- Lord Asa Briggs
- Asa Briggs
- Spouses
- Susan Anne Banwell
(1955 - )
- Susan Anne Banwell
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
- Keighley Boys' Grammar School
- University of London
- Employment
- Professor of Modern History, University of Leeds
(1955 - 1961) - Vice-Chancellor, University of Sussex
(1961 - 1976) - Provost, Worcester College, Oxford
(1976 - 1991)
- Professor of Modern History, University of Leeds
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on July 23, 2013
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