Victorian Cities by Asa Briggs
Focuses on the cities of Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Middlesbrough, Melbourne and London, comparing and contrasting their social, political and topographical development.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. He has also written A Social History of England, a revised edition of which appeared in 1994. He is currently President of the British Social History Society and of the Victorian Society.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780140135824 |
| ISBN 10 | 0140135820 |
| Title | Victorian Cities |
| Author | Asa Briggs |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1990-09-27 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
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