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Packed
with facts and dates, this book covers the entire history of Birmingham
from prehistoric times to the dawn of the new Millennium. In twelve bite-sized
chapters, Peter Leather, Lecturer in Birmingham Studies at the University
of Birmingham and writer of the popular "Hidden City" column in Birmingham
MetroNews, tells the fascinating tale of Birmingham's rise from insignificant
hamlet to international metropolis. He also pays tribute to the people,
great and small, who made this possible - from Peter de Bermingham, founder
of the Bull Ring market, to Matthew Boulton and Joseph Chamberlain - but
most of all to the real heroes of the story: Brummies.
"Birmingham has long needed a pacy, punchy
and informed short history. Peter Leather has provided it". Carl
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