In this February 2024 episode of The Blindboy Podcast, Birmingham-based historian Professor Carl Chinn discusses aspects of English working-class history and the importance of a shared understanding of history as a means of connection.

When did you last hear a politician refer to the 'working class'?

In British politics, conversation about the class system has declined.

Divisive identities occupy much of the UK's cultural consciousness, obscuring the shared history that connects less privileged members of society.

Professor Carl Chinn is an English historian who has spent his career studying the history of Birmingham's working people and, by extension, the history of the English working class.

In this February 2024 episode of The Blindboy Podcast, Irish podcaster and satirist David Chambers, known by his professional pseudonym Blindboy Boatclub, interviews Chinn in front of a live audience in Coventry.

The conversation ranges from the history of the Chartist movement to the origins of local place names.