Becoming a Historian with Carl Chinn: Your Life Matters. Your Story Matters.

Описание: Welcome to the first episode of "Our Lives, Our Stories," a new podcast hosted by Carl Chinn MBE Ph.D.

In this debut episode of Our Lives, Our Stories, renowned social historian Carl Chinn shares his own story. Carl argues that for too long, history has been written ‘from above’ and challenges every listener: your life matters, your story matters, and it deserves to be recorded.

In this episode, Carl discusses how family stories, working class life, and his father’s illegal betting shops shaped his perspective on the past.

Our Mission:
Our Lives, Our Stories is a living archive for our generation and the ones to follow. Our mission is to empower everyone to tell their story.

Record Your Story:
Our website https://www.ourlives-ourstories.com has free guides on how to unlock your memories and record them. Your life matters. Your story matters.

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Production by Moment Podcasts
Recorded at Nortons

0:00 Welcome to Our Lives, Our Stories & why this podcast exists
0:37 History should be democratised: every person has a story
2:07 The challenge: record your life & your family’s stories
3:01 How Carl became a social historian
4:05 What “social history” means
7:01 Early influences: family stories, books, TV, comics
8:16 Grammar school & education opening doors (and its problems)
11:49 Working in betting shops from age 13
15:58 Family intervention: the moment Carl chose university
18:02 Transfer to Birmingham Uni
19:43 Dorothy Thompson
24:24 PhD: interviews, community histories
26:46 Building a career
31:02 Community historian role & taking history into communities
32:17 First book: They Worked All Their Lives
36:34 Betting history: Better Betting with a Decent Fella (national research)
40:01 “Peaky Blinders” & closing message

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