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Peaky Blinders - The Real Gangs and Gangsters

The true story of Britain's most notorious street gangs
Brief Description
You know who the Peaky Blinders are ... It's time to see where they began. By the spring of 2024, it will be four and a half years since the publication of Chinn's Sunday Times number 1 best-selling Peaky Blinders. The Real Story. Adopting a chronological... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
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Peaky Blinders - The Real Gangs and Gangsters

Following on from the success of our Peaky Blinders: The Real Story series, a fourth book in the series, Peaky Blinders: The Real Gangsters and Gangs will offer up a fresh perspective on the Birmingham gangs pre-1914

Following on from the success of our Peaky Blinders: The Real Story series, a fourth book in the series, Peaky Blinders: The Real Gangsters and Gangs will offer up a fresh perspective on the Birmingham gangs pre-1914

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You know who the Peaky Blinders are ... It's time to see where they began. By the spring of 2024, it will be four and a half years since the publication of Chinn's Sunday Times number 1 best-selling Peaky Blinders. The Real Story. Adopting a chronological approach, it covered the origins of Birmingham's backstreet gangs in the late 1860s through the late 20th century. This much-awaited fourth book in the bestselling series, Peaky Blinders: The Real Gangsters and Gangs will differ by taking a thematic approach and intends to delve far more deeply into the crimes as well as the political issues at the heart of this pre-war period. Focusing on the historical backstreet gangs of Birmingham before 1914, it will delve more deeply into the worst peaky blinders and the real gangs whose bloody feuds, murders and maiming, baiting of police officers, gendered violence, indiscriminate bullying, blackmailing of publicans and music hall managers, and disturbing roles in political riots and racist attacks made Birmingham infamous as the city of the peaky blinders.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781789467291

Publisher: John Blake Publishing Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 August 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: John Blake Publishing Ltd

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 258g

Pages: 368

About the Author

Professor Carl Chinn MBE Ph.D. is a social historian with a national profile, writer, public speaker, and teacher. An off-course bookmaker himself until 1984, he is the son and grandson of illegal bookmakers in Sparkbrook, and the great-grandson of a peaky blinder, whilst his mother's family were factory workers in Aston. His writings are deeply affected by his family's working-class background and life in the back-to-backs of Birmingham and he believes passionately that history must be democratised because each and every person has made their mark upon history and has a story to tell.

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