Asa Briggs, historian of the BBC dies

Asa Briggs The BBC first fifty years

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Asa Briggs who wrote a history of the first fifty year of the BBC, as well as an extensive history of broadcasting in Britain, died on March 15, 2016.

Here is his obituary from the Times Higher Education: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/university-sussex-founding-father-asa-briggs-dies

“Asa Briggs, one of the most prominent university leaders of his generation, has died aged 94.

Lord Briggs was one of the most respected and influential figures in post-war British academic life.

An acclaimed writer on the recent social and cultural history of Britain and the history of broadcasting, he was also a “founding father” of the University of Sussex who went on to become its second vice-chancellor (1967–76).

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Lord Briggs, who died on 15 March, was born in Yorkshire in 1921 and served in the intelligence corps at Bletchley Park during the war before he began his rise though the academic ranks.

He worked at Oxford, the Institute for Advanced Studies in the US and the University of Leeds before joining Sussex as pro-vice-chancellor in 1961.

His publications included the celebrated trilogy Victorian People, Victorian Cities and Victorian Things; A Social History of England; and a five-volume History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom.”