Record ID:
35021834 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 50040878
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1921-05-07
  • Keighley (England)
Death:
  • 2016-03-15
  • Lewes (England)
Fields of activity:
  • Social history
Occupations:
  • Historians College teachers College administrators
Used for:
  • Briggs of Lewes, Lord, 1921-2016
  • Briggs, Lord, 1921-2016
Notes:
  • Thomson, D. Patterns of peacemaking ... 1945.
  • Modern Europe, 1789-1989, 1997 t.p. (Asa Briggs) jkt. (Lord Briggs of Lewes; prof. of history at the Univ. of Sussex in 1961; was Vice-Chancellor of Sussex from 1967 to 1976; became Provost of Worcester Coll., Oxford, 1976-1991; he was also chancellor of the Open Univ. from 1978-1994; served as chairman of the European Institute of Education and Social Policy in Paris)
  • Telegraph (online), viewed Oct. 16, 2017 (Lord Briggs; b. Asa Briggs, May 7, 1921, Keighley, Yorkshire; created a life peer, 1976; d. Mar. 15, 2016; wide-ranging social historian and university administrator who delighted in the throw-away ephemera of everyday life)
  • Wikipedia, Oct. 26, 2012 Asa Briggs (b. 7 May 1921; English historian; made a life peer (Baron Briggs) in 1976)
  • 678 field information, Oct. 16, 2017 (M.A.)
Local system number:
  • (AuPaJTL)37374
  • abv00057744
  • 000000021949
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng rda DLC DLC WaU InU DLC ANL VJTL