Books by Asa Briggs

Asa Briggs is one of the twentieth century's best-known historians. He has been a Fellow and Provost of Worcester College, Oxford, and in 1976 he was made a life peer. A Fellow of the British Academy, Asa has served on several national committees concerned with education and culture. President of the British Social History Society and of the Victorian Society, his many books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century social and cultural history include The Age of Improvement, A Social History of England and the five volumes of the definitive history of broadcasting in the United Kingdom.