page_title: Carl Chinn
hierarchical_section_title: Carl Chinn
caption_attribution_description: English: Carl Chinn on air during his BBC WM show on 12 June 2011, interviewing editor Andy Mabbett about Wikipedia. The taking and use of this photograph was discussed during the programme; near the end of which, it was announced that the picture was already on the English-language Wikipedia article about Chinn. For background &amp; audio, see Mabbett's blogpost.
context_page_description: Carl Steven Alfred Chinn, MBE is an English historian, writer and broadcaster whose working life has been devoted to the study and popularisation of the city of Birmingham. He broadcast a programme on the BBC from the mid 1990s focusing on Birmingham's history.
  In 1990, he was contracted to lecture at the University of Birmingham, where he subsequently became a full professor in 2002. During this year he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire for his "services to local history and to charities."
context_section_description: Carl Steven Alfred Chinn, MBE (born 6 September 1956) is an English historian, writer and broadcaster whose working life has been devoted to the study and popularisation of the city of Birmingham. He broadcast a programme on the BBC from the mid 1990s focusing on Birmingham's history.
  In 1990, he was contracted to lecture at the University of Birmingham, where he subsequently became a full professor in 2002. During this year he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for his "services to local history and to charities."
caption: Chinn on 12 June 2011
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