Tristram Hunt MP tracks the life's work of the historian Asa Briggs ... when the optimism of the post-war era soured in the 1970s. And he argues that Briggs' Victorian heritage, particularly ...

From the BBC Oral History Collection. Asa Briggs, The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom, Volume III: The War of Words 1939-1945 (1995) Sebastian Ritchie, Our Man in Yugoslavia ...

Lord Asa Briggs, one of Britain's leading ... your degree before you go into uniform'." These words proved prescient, and when the Second World War came Lord Briggs signed up to the intelligence ...