biography
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Briggs (of Lewes), Asa Briggs, Baron
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| lived:
| (1921– )
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| biography:
| Educationalist and historian, born in Keighley, West Yorkshire, England, UK. He was educated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and London University. Professor of modern history at Leeds University (1955–61), he became the first professor of history, then Vice Chancellor (1967), of the University of Sussex, and became provost of Worcester College, Oxford, in 1976. A pioneer in distance learning, he was instrumental in the establishment of Britain's Open University (1969), and became its Chancellor in 1978. He has acted as adviser to governments around the globe in making distance learning accessible to people in remote regions and to those who would find conventional tertiary education not feasible. Of his more than 70 books, important titles include Victorian People (1954), A Social History of England (1983, 1994), and Modern Europe 1789–1989 (1997). |
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