An Evening with Carl Chinn at The Rhodehouse in Sutton Coldfield

An Evening with Carl Chinn at The Rhodehouse

Professor Carl Chinn MBE DL Ph.D. F.Birm.Soc.is a social historian with a national profile, writer, teacher, and public speaker. An off-course bookmaker until 1984, after which he was unemployed and part-time employed for several years, he is the son and grandson of illegal bookmakers in Sparkbrook, whilst his mother's family were factory workers in Aston. His writings and broadcasting are deeply affected by his family's working-class background and life in the back-to-backs of Birmingham, and he is resolute in his belief that history must be democratised because each and every person has made their mark upon history and has a story to tell.

Carl is the author of 35 books, amongst them studies of working-class housing, urban working-class life, poorer working-class women's lives, manufacturing, Birmingham, the Black Country, illegal bookmaking, and ethnic minorities. He is also co-editor of Birmingham. The Workshop of the World (2016), the first major history of Birmingham since the 1970s.

Join us on Wednesday 10th June 2026 for an evening with Carl Chinn, as he explores the history of the real Peaky Blinders followed by a special Q&A session.

The bar opens at 6pm, last entry 6.45pm and the event starts 7pm.
Tickets are £10 via The Rhodehouse website (www.therhodehouse.co.uk/events).

This event is hosted at The Rhodehouse, 123 Parade, Sutton Coldfield, B72 1PU, and the nearest parking is Duke Street Car Park. It is an over 18s event which is sponsored by Sutton Coldfield's Business Improvement District (BID).