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Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs (born 7 May 1921) is an English historian. He is a leading specialist on the Victorian era, and the foremost historian of broadcasting in Britain. He was made a life peer in 1976. ==Life== Born in Keighley, West Riding of Yorkshire in 1921, he was educated at Keighley Boys' Grammar School before Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge graduating with a BA in 1941, and a BSc in Economics from the University of London External Programme, also in 1941. From 1942 to 1945 during the Second World War, Briggs served in the Intelligence Corps and worked at the British wartime codebreaking station, Bletchley Park. He was a member of "the Watch" in Hut 6, the section deciphering Enigma machine messages from the German Army and Luftwaffe.〔Asa Briggs, foreword to Gwen Watkins, ''Cracking the Luftwaffe Codes'', 2006, Greenhill Books, p. 12, ISBN 978-1-85367-687-1〕 After the war, he was elected a Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford (1945–55) and was subsequently appointed University Reader in Recent Social and Economic History (1950–55). He was Faculty Fellow of Nuffield College (1953–55) and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, United States (1953–54). From 1955 until 1961 he was Professor of Modern History at Leeds University and between 1961 and 1976 he was Professor of History at Sussex University, while also serving as Dean of the School of Social Studies (1961–65), Pro Vice-Chancellor (1961–67) and Vice-Chancellor (1967–76). On 4 June 2008 the University of Sussex Arts A1 and A2 lecture theatres, designed by Basil Spence, were renamed in his honour. In 1976 he returned to Oxford to become Provost of Worcester College, retiring from the post in 1991. He was Chancellor of the Open University (1978–94) and in May 1979 was awarded an honorary degree as Doctor of the University. He has been an Honorary Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge since 1968, of Worcester College, Oxford since 1969, and of St Catharine's College, Cambridge since 1977. He also held a visiting appointment at the Gannett Center for Media Studies at Columbia University in the late 1980s and again at the renamed Freedom Forum Media Studies Center at Columbia in 1995–96. In 1976 he was created a life peer as Baron Briggs, of Lewes in the County of East Sussex. He has written a five-volume text on the history of broadcasting in the UK (essentially, the history of the BBC) from 1922 to 1974. In 1987, Lord Briggs was invited to be President of the Brontë Society, a literary society established in 1893 in Haworth, near Keighley, England. He presided over the Society's centenary celebrations in 1993 and continued as President until he retired from the position in 1996. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Asa Briggs」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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