Asa Briggs
Briggs achieved international recognition during his long and prolific career for examining various aspects of modern British history.[3] 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).[3] He was later faculty fellow of Nuffield College (1953–55) and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, United States (1953–54).Announced in the 1976 Birthday Honours,[6] he was created a life peer as Baron Briggs, of Lewes in the County of East Sussex on 19 July 1976.[3] Briggs' other works ranged from an account of the period that Karl Marx spent in London to the corporate history of British retailer Marks and Spencer.