Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs
(1921-2016), HistorianSitter in 6 portraits
Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs was a historian, highly respected for his work on the Victorian era. In particular, his trilogy, Victorian People, Victorian Cities and Victorian Things made a lasting mark on how historians view the nineteenth century. He was made a life peer in 1976.
by Jane Bown
bromide print, 1999
NPG P758(1)
by Godfrey Argent
bromide print, 6 January 1970
NPG x4301
by Jane Bown, for Camera Press: London: UK
bromide press print, 1971
NPG x184260
by Norman McBeath
bromide fibre print, June 1992
NPG x87850
by William Teakle
bromide fibre print, 1994
NPG x87874
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