The AOUG Vice-Chancellor Asa Briggs Award for the Arts
Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs was born 7th May 1921 in Keighley West Yorkshire. He was Chancellor of the Open University from 1978 to 1994 and is a most respected historian who has written on the Victorian era. His trilogy Victorian People, Victorian Cities and Victorian Things made a lasting impression on how historians view the 19th Century.
2006 Recipient Barbara Daniels
The AOUG Chancellor Asa Briggs Award for Arts was established in 1992 and Barbara is the 9th recipient of this award. Mr Gerald Parsons introduced Barbara, she is in the final year of her research into Children's homes in Victorian Britain. The research examines the provision made by the Protestant denominations and by Roman Catholic Church to deal with one of the pressing social problems of the age, that of homelessness and uncared for children. This work is ground breaking because there are no comparative studies of Victorian children's homes in existence.
Previous winners
2005 Michael Hassett
2004 Philip Greaney
2001 Patricia Mitchell
1998 Bernard Gates
1997 Les Robarts
1994 Tracey Martin
1993 John Potter
1992 Barbara Whittle