The Collected Essays of Asa Briggs: Images, Problems, Standpoints and Forecasts

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University of Illinois Press, 1988 - History - 352 pages

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V
3
VII
36
VIII
49
IX
68
X
89
XI
116
XII
127
XIII
129
XVI
213
XVII
215
XVIII
236
XIX
253
XX
272
XXI
289
XXII
291
XXIII
310

XIV
153
XV
177

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About the author (1988)

Asa Briggs was born in Keighley, England on May 7, 1921. He received a BA in history and a BSc in economics from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge in 1941. During World War II, he worked at Bletchley Park, the Buckinghamshire country house devoted to cracking German wartime codes. He taught at several universities including the London School of Economics; Worcester College, Oxford; Leeds University; the University of Sussex; and Open University. He wrote several non-fiction works including The Age of Improvement, Victorian People, Victorian Cities, Victorian Things, and a five-volume history of British broadcasting. His last two books were the autobiographies entitled Secret Days and Special Relationships. He died on March 15, 2016 at the age of 94.

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