A small exhibition on Keighley-born historian Asa Briggs (1921-2016) is available to view in Keighley Local Studies Library for the next few months. He was educated at Keighley Boys’ Grammar School then at Cambridge. His main areas of interest were the social and cultural histories of the past two hundred years, resulting in books ranging from the Victorians to a comprehensive history of the BBC. He also wrote about his time working at Bletchley Park during the Second World War.
A short leaflet on Asa Briggs is available at the library, and in August a new biography is to be published by Harper Collins. The author is Adam Sisman and he visited Keighley Local Studies Library last year to research his subject’s links with the town.
