The Real Peaky Blinders
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51:23This episode explores the evolution of the Peaky Blinders from a mass gang movement interested in territory and fighting into the first organised crime gangs in Britain. We follow the career of Birmingham petty thief, Billy Kimber, who, with his Birmingham gang, seeks to dominate the money-spinning illegal rackets around ...
52:01This series looks at the origins of the Real Peaky Blinders; the mass street gang phenomenon that arose in Birmingham at the end of the 19th Century. The movement emerged in all the major British industrial cities but with Birmingham's Peaky Blinders the most notorious. With growing populations crammed into the new industr...