Asa Briggs Books

This is the first of a five-volume history of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom. The Birth of Broadcasting covers early amateur experiments in wireless telephony in America and in England, the pioneer days at Writtle in Essex and elsewhere, and the coming of organized broadcasting and its rapid growth during the first four years of the BBC's existence as a private Company before it became a public Corporation in January 1927. Briggs also considers the impact of wireless on society, and he has much to say about personalities and programmes as well as Corporation policies.

A survey of world events through the decade of the 1930s, looking at the effects of the 1929 Wall Street crash, the development of dictatorship in the Soviet Union, the rise of Fascism, and more.

An exploration of world events during the decade of the 1920s, looking at underlying economic trends, social changes and advances in popular culture, in the period of post-war reconstruction.

A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy in a Brodart cover.

In the quickly changing culture we live in, Christians must become mandorla people, who are capable of living naturally with grace and truth. When done well, we live in the sacred overlap, where heaven and earth come together and hold hands. When done faithfully, we live in this both/and reality as faithful witnesses in the way of Jesus.

Gathers Victorian photographs and explains what they reveal about the period's attitudes

A study of the people, ideas and events between the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the Second Reform Act of 1867.

In this study, Asa Briggs explores the changing English way of life from the Roman conquest to the present day. He traces the cultural, political and economic factors that have influenced England's social history throughout the centuries.

This revised and updated volume covers fundamental issues related to a period of change in British history - industrialization, war, constitutional change, political development, and society and culture.