{"id":2674,"date":"2016-03-23T17:18:50","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T16:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=2674"},"modified":"2016-03-23T17:18:50","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T16:18:50","slug":"remembering-asa-briggs-7-may-1921-15-march-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=2674","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Asa Briggs, 7 May 1921 \u2013 15 March 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/opinion\/obituaries\/article4719334.ece\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/www.thetimes.co.uk');\">Times<\/a> carries a tribute to Asa Briggs in the &#8216;Lives Remembered&#8217; section on page 55. Asa&#8217;s association with the OU was not in the obituary last week.<\/p>\n<p>For an account of the relationship between\u00a0 Asa and the OU see the chapter by Daniel Weinbren in this <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books?id=uMQaBgAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PP1&amp;lpg=PP1&amp;dq=the+age+of+asa&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=mzbaVzUYNu&amp;sig=hmfg-EZBOplxoKFksKj8xa1MWE0&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjF_pKimtfLAhXMOhQKHQifAXwQ6AEISDAI#v=onepage&amp;q=the%20age%20of%20asa&amp;f=false\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/books.google.co.uk');\">book<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Asa&#8217;s work is discussed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=c_mgPI-7C5o\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/www.youtube.com');\">here<\/a> by the OU&#8217;s Professor of Social History and Asa himself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Times carries a tribute to Asa Briggs in the &#8216;Lives Remembered&#8217; section on page 55. Asa&#8217;s association with the OU was not in the obituary last week. For an account of the relationship between\u00a0 Asa and the OU see the chapter by Daniel Weinbren in this book Asa&#8217;s work is discussed here by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-of-the-ou","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2675,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674\/revisions\/2675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}