Asa Briggs
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Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs (7 May 1921 – 15 March 2016) was a British historian, codebreaker and life peer. He was a leading specialist on the Victorian era, and the foremost historian of broadcasting in Britain. He was made a life peer in 1976.
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- The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom 5 volumes(Oxford University Press)
- 1 The birth of broadcasting - 1961
- 2 The golden age of wireless (1927-1939) - 1965
- 3 The war of words (1939-1945) - 1970
- 4 Sound and vision (1945-1955) - 1979
- 5 Competition (1955-1974) - 1995
- The Age of Improvement, 1783-1867 (Harlow: Pearson, 1959, 2nd edn 2000)
- The Channel Islands, Occupation and Liberation 1940-1945, Batsford Books, London, ISBN 0-7134-7822-5
- A Social History of England
- Victorian People
- Victorian Cities
- Victorian Things
- Marx in London, An Illustrated Guide
- A Social History of the media 2002
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