It is striking how many nationally significant speeches have been made in Birmingham over the past two hundred years. This book looks at ten episodes when a speech in Birmingham challenged the rest of the country to embrace change and reform. More than any other city it represents Britain's provincial voice across the period. The book reflects the importance of oratory in making a political argument. It may in a sound-bite era be a dying art but these speeches fulfil the first requirement of successful rhetoric, that it be a reasoned argument to persuade its audience.
- ISBN10 190503623X
- ISBN13 9781905036233
- Publish Date 31 October 2015
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint West Midlands History Limited
- Format Paperback
- Pages 158
- Language English