A passionate Brummie, Carl Chinn is community historian at The University of Birmingham and is well known as a broadcaster, columnist with the Evening Mail and as a writer on Birmingham's past. Brum and Brummies is his sixteenth book, and in it Carl calls fourth a Brummagem that has gone but recently yet which should never be forgotten.

Brum and Brummies is a tribute to all those folk who may have had a little in their lives but who passed on so much to us their children and grandchildren.