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.
"The 19th century is the first age in human history in which it became normal for most citizens to live in cities. . . . Professor Briggs's book reminds us of our own failings, and this is among its great merits. Though he has selected only a few urban themes for full discussion, he incidentally illuminates many more."--E. J. Hobsbawm, "New Statesman
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