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101 Things Birmingham Gave the World Paperback – December 12, 2014

by Jon Bounds (Author), Liz Cooke (Author), Jon Hickman (Author),
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This is the book that proves that Birmingham is not just the crucible of the Industrial Revolution, but the cradle of civilisation. From the team behind hit Birmingham miscellany, Paradise Circus, comes the definitive guide to the 101 things that made the world what it is today - and all of them were made in Birmingham. Read how Birmingham gave the world the wonders of tennis, nuclear war, the Beatles, 'that smell of eggs' and many more… 97 more.

“101 Things Birmingham Gave The World, is not a Birmingham of the memory. It is a living breathing thing, wrestling with the city’s contradictions, press-ganging the typically arch and understated humour of the Brummie, and an army of little-known facts, both trivial and monumental, into reshaping its confusing reputation.” Stewart Lee
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    240 pages
  2. Language
    English
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    December 12, 2014
  4. Dimensions
    5 x 0.55 x 8 inches
  5. ISBN-10
    1782803998
  6. ISBN-13
    978-1782803997
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Paradise Circus (December 12, 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1782803998
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1782803997
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.5 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.55 x 8 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 45 ratings

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  1. Jon Bounds

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    Jon was voted the ‘14th Most Influential Person in the West Midlands’ in 2008. Subsequently he has not been placed. He's been a football referee, venetian blind maker, cellar man, and a losing Labour council candidate: “No, no chance.

    A complete no-hoper” said a spoilt ballot. Jon wrote and directed the first ever piece of drama performed on Twitter when he persuaded a cast including MPs and journalists to give over their timelines to perform Twitpanto. But all that is behind him.

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    An aspiring decadent, drinker with a writing problem and cheerful nihilist in love with his own legend. All my friends have babies, jobs and mortgages but I have lots of books and a skeleton marionette called "Senior Carpenter".

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Dave C
5.0 out of 5 stars Good if you finish Viz before the next edition is out
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 14, 2015
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Tho' a dedicated proper scouser by birth I now live in city centre Brum and perfectly happily. But even if I didn't I'd still recommend this entertaining perspective on just some of the important stuff this great city has (apparently) offered the world. To be honest I bought it part out of pity! I once stocked these guys magazines in my coffee shop, can't remember the over-clever title now, but they all got nicked by dodgy punters - never sold a single one! Luckily, they were clearly too dedicated to the 'artistic life' to have bothered popping by again for the cash. Buying this thing seems a reasonable way of atoning! But I sold the shop anyway, so if they want the cash now they can kiss my ... and I like Stewart Lee and The Fall and Ted Chippington, whatever, but he needs to get with the modern music scene. The guys stuck in a '80s Star Trek transporter.
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Wendy Harrison-Green
4.0 out of 5 stars Not as bad as it sounds!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 20, 2015
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Well written, funny in places, informative and written with the reader in mind. Not JUST a list of things Birmingham has given us, but some fun stuff too!
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Hazz
5.0 out of 5 stars Funny funny fun.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 15, 2014
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Five years ago, during an ill-fated soiree into the world of stand up comedy, I did a routine about Birmingham and the things it had given the world. I blathered on about Brylcreem and microwave ovens, the Football League and plastic, but the crowd in that tiny pub in Cradley Heath just weren't ready for the truth. Being a largely terrible set probably didn't help, either, but luckily, five years on, Craig Hamilton, Jon 'Bounds' Bounder and Jon 'Hickman' Et Al have released the astonishingly funny, informative, and true story of 101 things Birmingham has blessed the world with.

From going to the pictures to Batman, eugenics to karaoke, you'll marvel at just how ace and inventive the Brummie race are. Some bloke called Stewart Lee (he co-created David Brent, or something) has written a foreword that will make you cry, make you think, make you realise how ace the city was, is, and will continue to be.
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Oliver Mason
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Collection of Miscellanea
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 6, 2015
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A really interesting collection of various anecdotes (usually based on facts) that link Birmingham to many great things in modern life.

Sometimes the link is rather tenuous, but what the hell! Definitely an entertaining read, whether you're a brummie or not.
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cjb
3.0 out of 5 stars and (even allowing for the humour) there's some annoying inaccuracies in it
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 16, 2015
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Found this moderately amusing, but only moderately, and (even allowing for the humour) there's some annoying inaccuracies in it, but it gave me a bit of entertainment.
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