Dr Carl Chinn MBE is well known as an academic, broadcaster and author. A passionate Brummie, he is Community Historian at The University of Birmingham, a regular columnist for The Birmingham Evening Mail, and a presenter of his own local history radio show from BBC Pebble Mill. He is the author of many books on Birmingham's history.

Brum and Brummies 2, the second fully illustrated volume on the people and places of old Birmingham, will reawaken many memories of Birmingham at work and play down the years. Brum and Brummies 2 is dedicated in the author's words to "Our forebears who collared to give us that which was derived to them: a choice."

Carl Chinn has crafted a book with tender loving care which doesn't just concentrate on the momentous events that shaped the city but the small stuff that greased the wheels of history... There's an absolute wealth of material...including old photographs on most pages and details on all sorts of people and places that made the great city tick. An interesting read.

The Redditch Advertiser
Dec 19, 2001