John Blake Peaky Blinders - The Real Story of Birmingham's most notorious gangs: As seen on BBC's The Real Peaky Blinders

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This book investigates the real Peaky Blinders gang, a group of working-class criminals who operated in Birmingham from the late 19th century into the early 20th century. Unlike the fictionalised Shelby family from the BBC series, the real gangs were involved in street violence, illegal bookmaking, protection rackets, theft, and turf wars in Birmingham’s poorest districts. Historian Carl Chinn uses archival records, photographs, and family histories to show how these gangs actually lived, worked, and eventually evolved into other criminal groups such as the Birmingham Gang. The book also highlights how the TV series has popularised and partly romanticised their story