| Asa Briggs was
born in 1921 at Keighley, Yorkshire, and from
1955 to 1961 he was Professor of Modern History
at Leeds University, and in 1961 he was the first
academic to be appointed to the then new University
of Sussex. Six years later he was appointed Vice-Chancellor.
From 1976 to 1991 he was Provost of Worcester
College, Oxford. He was Chancellor of the Open
University from 1978 to 1994. In 1976 he was made
a life peer. He is married with four children.
His main field of historical research has been
in nineteenth- and twentieth-century social
and cultural history, including a 5 volume history
of the BBC, a trilogy on the Victorian era,
and a social history of England. He is currently
President of the British Social History Society
and of the Victorian
Society.
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