Jennifer Aston, University of Oxford, UKFrank Bongiorno, Australian National University, AustraliaDavid Cannadine, Princeton University, USA Francesca Carnevali, University of Birmingham, UKMalcolm Chase, University of Leeds, UKMatthew Cragoe, University of Sussex, UKMartin Hewitt, University of Huddersfield, UKJohn McIlroy, Middlesex University, UKRohan McWilliam, Anglia Ruskin University, UKSiân Nicholas, Aberystwyth University, UKJames Raven, University of Essex, UKJean Seaton, University of Westminster, UK and is the Official Historian of the BBC, UKJames Thompson, University of Bristol, UKDaniel Weinbren, The Open University, UK

• Preface; David Cannadine Introduction: Asa Briggs and Public Life in Britain Since 1945; Miles Taylor PART I: HISTORY 1. The Interconnectedness of Things: Asa Briggs and Social History; Rohan McWilliam 2. A Little Bit of a Victorian? Asa Briggs and Victorian Studies; Martin Hewitt 3. Victorian Capitalists and Middle-Class Formation: Reflections on Asa Briggs' Birmingham; Francesca Carnevali and Jennifer Aston 4. Asa Briggs and the Remaking of Australian historiography; Frank Bongiorno 5. Asa Briggs and the Emergence of Labour History in Post-War Britain; John McIlroy PART II: BROADCASTING 6. From the Daily Mail to the BBC: Communications in Britain, c. 1896-1922; James Thompson 7. Broadcasting Carries On !: Asa Briggs and the History of the Wartime BBC; Sian Nicholas 8. Asa and the Epochs: the BBC, the Historian, the Institution and the Archive; Jean Seaton PART III: UNIVERSITIES 9. Back to Yorkshire: 'Asia' Briggs at Leeds, 1955-1961; Malcolm Chase 10. Asa Briggs and the University of Sussex, 1961-1976; Matthew Cragoe 11. Asa Briggs and the Opening up of the Open University; Daniel Weinbren 12. From Worcester to Longmans: Devising the History of the Book; James Raven