About

Professor Carl Chinn is a social historian with a national profile, writer, teacher, tour guide and public speaker. An off-course Bookmaker until 1984, he is the son and grandson of illegal bookmakers in Sparkbrook while has Mother's family were factory workers in Aston. His writing and broadcasting are deeply affected by his family's working-class background and life in the back-to-backs off Birmingham, and he believes passionately that history must be democratised because each and every person has made their mark upon history and has a story to tell .