1. Asa Briggs, Victorian Cities (London: Odhams Press, 1963; Pelican pbk. edn., Harmondsworth, 1968). The first two works in Briggs’ Victorian trilogy were published in Italian as L’Inhgilterra vittoriana: i personaggi e le città (Roma: Editori Riuniti, 1978).
2. Briggs, Victorian People: A Reassessment of Persons and Themes, 1851–1867 (London: Odhams Press, 1954; Pelican pbk. edn., 1968);
3. Briggs, Victorian Things (London: B. T. Batsford, 1988; pbk. edn., Harmondsworth, 1990).
4. Briggs contributed sections on ‘Social History since 1815’, ‘Political History from 1832’, and the ‘Introduction’ to the section on Public Education: W. B. Stephens (ed.), A History of the County of Warwick, vol. VII: The City of Birmingham (London: Oxford University Press, 1964), pp. 223–45, 298–317, 486–500;
5. Briggs, History of Birmingham, vol. II: Borough and City, 1865–1938 (London: Oxford University Press, 1952).