MBE, FRSA, FBirm.Soc
Dr Carl Chinn is a former Professor of Birmingham Community History in the University of Birmingham; author of over 20 books on the history of Birmingham, the Black Country and the urban working class in England; a writer for the Birmingham Mail and Express and Star, and broadcaster on BBC WM.
He has appeared as an expert on various television programmes, including Channel 4’s ‘History Hunters’ with Tony Robinson and BBC 4’s ‘Edwardian Larder’. In the Midlands he is a long-running columnist on local history for the Express and Star and the Birmingham Mail; he has a weekly local history show on BBC WM and regular history slots on BBC Midlands Today; and he was the expert on ITV’s ‘The Way We Were’ series.
Professor Chinn has appeared on numerous Radio 4 programmes, including those presented by Libby Purvess and Laurie Taylor. More recently he presented the series ‘Centre of Our World’, looking at various ethnic minorities in Birmingham, and ‘Manufacturing Matters’ a polemic for manufacturing on ‘The World Tonight’.
