Role
Patron
Carl is Professor of Community History and Director of the Birmingham Lives project at the University of Birmingham. A social historian with a national profile, he is also a broadcaster, newspaper columnist, public speaker, writer, charity fundraiser and campaigner for the rights of working-class people and the recognition of the importance of manufacturing. Professor Chinn is the author of 29 books that include studies of working-class housing, urban working class life, working-class women’s lives, manufacturing, Birmingham, the Black Country, and ethnic minorities.
Carl has most recently been appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant by The Lord-Lieutenant of the West Midlands, Sir John Crabtree.
