Ranging widely over time and place, Asa Briggs highlights continuities and changes in society in England from prehistory to the present day. Literature, art and politics are investigated as aspects and gauges of human experience, research in related disciplines is discussed and changes in historical interpretations explained. The author also offers his own, personal, view of social history.
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Asa Briggs was born in 1921 at Keighley, Yorkshire, and was educated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge where he received a double first in history. He also received a first-class honours degree in economics from London University. Professor Briggs' main field of historical research is nineteenth-century social and cultural history, on which he has written extensively. His works include 'Victorian Cities', 'Victorian Things' and 'The Age of Improvement'.
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