Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs (7 May 1921 – 15 March 2016) was an English historian. He was a leading specialist on the Victorian era, and the foremost historian...
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American author and Playboy columnist Asa Biggs (1811–1878), American politician Asa Briggs (1921–2016), British historian Asa S. Bushnell (governor) (1834–1904)...
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critical areas such as public health and education. According to historian Asa Briggs: Self-help was one of the favorite mid-Victorian virtues. Relying on yourself...
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Cryptanalysis of the Enigma Huts at Bletchley Park B-Dienst OP-20-G Noskwith 2011 Asa Briggs (2011), Secret Days: Code-breaking in Bletchley Park, London: Frontline...
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enabled it to stay in power for the next quarter-century. The historian Asa Briggs argues that his personality did not endear itself to the British mind...
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(2002), pp. 94–117 Graeme Shankland, "William Morris – Designer", in Asa Briggs (ed.) William Morris: Selected Writings and Designs, Harmondsworth: Penguin...
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interdisciplinary educational model was famously described by Professor Asa Briggs as pioneering "a new map of learning". The university grew from 52 students...
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Historians continue to debate the various causes of this dramatic change. Asa Briggs emphasizes the strong reaction against the French Revolution, and the...
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to claim independence from the Government during the war,: 25 but as Asa Briggs noted, a complete picture of the wartime BBC would have to include 'persistent...
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Crusoe sitting on the rock of Corn Law repeal". According to historian Asa Briggs, the Anti-Corn Law League was a large, nationwide middle-class moral crusade...
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icons of previous eras include Benjamin Franklin and Mozart. Historians Asa Briggs and Peter Burke, explained that term "iconography" would pass into high...
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about the life and work of some thirty of the most influential, including Asa Briggs, Peter Burke, David Cannadine, Natalie Zemon Davis, Richard J. Evans,...
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actress Ansel Briggs (1806–1881), American politician Arthur E. Briggs (1881–1969), California teacher, law school dean and politician Asa Briggs (1921–2016)...
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HISTORY OF LONGMANS AND THEIR BOOKS, 1724-1990: LONGEVITY IN PUBLISHING by Asa Briggs on Oak Knoll". Oak Knoll. Retrieved 5 August 2021. "Mark Longman Dies...
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utopian vision. Its leading advocate Richard Cobden, according to historian Asa Briggs, promised that repeal would settle four great problems simultaneously:...
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of the prosecutor Sandra Petrocelli, Miss O'Brien, and King's lawyer, Asa Briggs. Petrocelli labels the four accused men, including Steve, as "monsters...
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Raymond "Sunset" Green Jharrel Jerome as Osvaldo Cruz Dorian Missick as Asa Briggs Willie C. Carpenter as Judge Rege Lewis as Ernie Ryans Jonny Coyne as...
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and health visiting. The Committee on Nursing was headed by historian Asa Briggs. Other members of the committee included: Professor Margaret Scott-Wright...
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a personal revulsion against social evils and personal misbehaviour. Asa Briggs points out, "There were as many treatises on 'domestic economy' in mid-Victorian...
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German ciphers at Bletchley Park. The historian and wartime codebreaker Asa Briggs has said, "You needed exceptional talent, you needed genius at Bletchley...
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historian Asa Briggs originally published in 1955. It is part of a trilogy that also incorporates Victorian Cities and Victorian Things. Briggs's analysis...
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Oxford, cryptologist, Hut 8 (Lady Hinsley) Lord Asa Briggs, member of the Watch in Hut 6 (historian) Jean Briggs Watters, English cryptanalyst Christine Brooke-Rose...
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Summoning Wayne Black Card Leonard Short 2016 9 Rides Driver 2018 Monster Asa Briggs As Evil Does Dominic Jinn David Brian Banks Officer Mick Randolph 2019...
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Research Fellow in Mathematics who recruited many of them, John Herivel, Asa Briggs, Paul Coales, Malcolm Chamberlain, Edward Dudley Smith, John Manisty,...
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Group Captain James Stagg James Purefoy as King George VI Peter Ormond as Asa Briggs Angela Costello as Kay Summersby Kevin Findlay as Fanshawe Miro Teplitzky...
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Black, Jeremy. The Hanoverians: The History of a Dynasty (2004), 288 pp. Briggs, Asa. The making of modern England, 1783–1867: The age of improvement (1959)...
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Letters of the Reverend Patrick Brontë Edited by Dudley Green Foreword by Asa Briggs (Nonsuch Publishing Ltd 2005) A Man of Sorrow: The Life, Letters, and...
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The Cotton Industry. Shire Publications Ltd. p. 3. ISBN 0-85263-545-1. Asa Briggs, Victorian cities (1965) pp 83-136pp Punter, John (2009). Urban Design...
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President of The Victorian Society in February 2018, in succession to Asa Briggs, following a period as vice president from 2009, and has participated...
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English voice actress and television and film producer (b. 1927) 2016 – Asa Briggs, English historian and academic (b. 1921) 2016 – Seru Rabeni, Fijian rugby...
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