All the best anecdotes packed into 5k words! But even allowing for them having to be there, a sadly snide feel. For all his faults, Asa deserves more of the celebration provided by this extract than is offered by the piece as a whole. Age of Improvement and Victorian Cities a monument in themselves.
Victorian People gave all of us a memorable cast of characters to follow in finding our way through some of the century's key debates. He told their stories critically but with no hint of Stracheyan condescension. Briggs/Burn/Clark/ were to me the great trio, but Briggs above all.
Oct 18, 2025 13:54The Strachey-Briggs 'dine across the divide'! Now there's an occasion it would be worth being turned into a fly for!
