Second City av Richard Vinen

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<p><b>A <i>DAILY TELEGRAPH</i> BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022</b><br><br><b>''There is unlikely to be a fuller or more informative history of Birmingham than Vinen''s'' Jonathan Coe, <i>Financial Times</i></b><br><br><b>''Vinen has written a history of Birmingham, but it is also a theory of Birmingham. And also, perhaps, a theory of England. I buy it'' <i>Daily Telegraph</i></b><br><br>For over a century, Birmingham has been the second largest town in England. In his richly enjoyable new book Richard Vinen captures the drama of a small village that grew to become the quintessential city of the twentieth century: a place of mass production and full employment that began in the 1930s, but which came to a cataclysmic halt in the 1980s. Birmingham has also been a magnet for migration, drawing in people from Wales, Ireland, India, Pakistan and the Caribbean. Indeed, much of British history can be explained, in large measure, with reference to Birmingham.<br><br>Vinen roots his sweeping story in the