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Briggs, Asa (783 words) |
 | Asa Briggs is the most important broadcasting historian in Britain, and has, in the process of writing his accounts of this feature of modern British social history, become a powerful advocate for the continuation of the British Broadcasting Company (BBC). |
| Perhaps Briggs' greatest contribution to British broadcasting may not be his history books; it could be his role as Chancellor of the Open University from 1978 to 1994, a non-residential institution which provides primary contacts with its students through radio and television broadcast. |
| Briggs' contribution to broadcasting is that of historian and advocate. |
| Termpapers on An Analysis of ASA Briggs "Victorian People" (191 words) |
| An Analysis of ASA Briggs Victorian People Victorian People, by ASA Briggs, tells a unique story about the mid- Victorian period of England from 1851 to 1867 and is very successful in showing unity among it's people, their thoughts and ideas. |
| Briggs made the choice to show the unity of the high Victorian period through the study of selected people from that period. |
| ASA Briggs achieved his goal of showing the unity of the period through his study of these various characters and their common goals. |
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