Peaky Blinders - The Real Story of Birmingham's most notorious gangs: Have a blinder of a Christmas with the Real Story of Birmingham's most notorious gangs: As seen on BBC's The Real Peaky Blinders

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a b c Louise Rhind Tutt (7 September 2019). "Real Peaky Blinder: Truth Behind the Legend". I Love Manchester. Archived from the original on 14 December 2019 . Retrieved 1 November 2019. The most powerful member of the Peaky Blinders was a man known as Kevin Mooney. His real name was Thomas Gilbert, but he routinely changed his last name. Your table will be held for up to 15 minutes after your booking time, after this time you will be classed as a no show and any monies paid will be lost. Peaky Blinders is my favourite television drama at the moment. It’s a great show, with high drama, violence and emotion. Even though the Peaky Blinders are gangsters, you can’t help but be invested in them and want them to succeed. This is the book for the fans, looking at the story from the creation through to the end of series four. (Series five came to the screens in 2019, and season six is coming…)

In the early part of the series when the group was still struggling to survive in Birmingham, Polly served as part advisor to Tommy and part devil's advocate. Bradley, Michael (12 September 2013). "Birmingham's real Peaky Blinders". BBC News. West Midlands. Archived from the original on 4 July 2018 . Retrieved 20 June 2018. Now, half way through Season Five (oh yes people, though we have had 6 episodes already, according to Steven Knight, we will have a 5.2 continuation), we get a celebration book - and it scores HUGE! Chinn, Carl (2019). Peaky Blinders: The Real Story. John Blake Publication. p.192. ISBN 978-1789461725. Many gang members later fought in the First World War. Henry Lightfoot, the first person to be named as a Peaky Blinder, joined the British Army three times in his life and participated in the Battle of the Somme in 1916. [22]Ugolini, Laura (2007). Men and Menswear: Sartorial Consumption in Britain 1880–1939. Ashgate. p.42. Maar klopt dit wel? Carl Chinn, kleinkind van een echte Peaky Blinder, gaat in dit boek op zoek naar wat er fout zit in de tv-serie en analyseert hoe het werkelijk liep met die beruchte bendes van Birmingham. Hij start zijn boek met verder in het verleden te graven, in het Engeland van de 19de eeuw. De industriële revolutie bracht toen een ongekende welvaart met zich mee en dat in een toch al florerend Brits rijk. Maar deze rijkdom is er niet voor iedereen: een grote groep van hardwerkende fabrieksarbeiders moest 6 dagen per week vele uren werken om te overleven. Deze uitbuiting in combinatie met een totaal gebrek aan vrijetijdsbestedingen zorgde ervoor dat kleine criminaliteit uitgroeide tot het ontstaan van de straatbendes. Game of Thrones star joins Peaky Blinders cast". The Independent. 29 March 2017. Archived from the original on 18 October 2017 . Retrieved 12 November 2017. Though there was always some tenderness in her relationship with Michael, it would never make her soft. Polly was always a fighter, and more so when the survival of the Blinders was at stake. She wouldn't hesitate to put a bullet in the head of those who went after them.

a b Larner, Tony (1 August 2010). "When Peaky Blinders Ruled Streets with Fear". Sunday Mercury. p.14.

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The companion book is organised in a logical fashion, with the story starting with Steven Knight’s creation of the series. It’s based on the stories told to him as a youngster in Birmingham along with his experiences. The brief for Peaky Blinders is to make it larger than life, with great clothes, sets and drama. The book then discusses the plot of each series, interspersed with each of the actors of the main character talking about their character in the first person. It’s a unique way of doing this and it really shows the depth of research and knowledge each actor has of their character, down to the small costume details you can’t see and the mannerisms. (For example, should Tommy touch Polly’s arm? Or is that too weird? Does Tommy Shelby actually cry?) All the major characters are covered but I kind of wish Sam Neill (Major Campbell) and Tom Hardy (Alfie Solomons) had been included. Even though their time was limited/they had smaller roles, it would have been fascinating to hear their thoughts. (Especially Sam Neill, as his character just got more and more repulsive – how does he manage?) A collection of Alfie’s quotes would have been great too, but I see that the internet has that covered. I am glad to see that others love Arthur as much as I do! I’m a fan of the TV series, Peaky Blinders (BBC), so I was delighted to receive this is a gift from a relative. I really wanted to love this book, or at the very least enjoy it, but it was a real slog (no pun intended) to finish. It was difficult to assign a star rating to it – the depth of research that’s gone into it should make it at least a 3* - but unfortunately, it was a rather dull, needlessly drawn out book full of grammatical mistakes, which is why I’ve classified it as a 2*. Egner, Jeremy (21 December 2017). " 'Peaky Blinders': The Disparate Ingredients of a Cult Hit". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 7 February 2019 . Retrieved 30 December 2017.

I personally really enjoyed the earlier bits about the slogging gangs of the 1800's. Chinn really built the atmosphere of the times. The sense of lawlessness, of contempt for the police and petty indiscriminate violence and how Birmingham faced those challenges and overcame them.

Gooderson, Philip (2010). The Gangs of Birmingham: From the Sloggers to the Peaky Blinders. Wrea Green: Milo. ISBN 9781903854884. Archived from the original on 24 August 2021 . Retrieved 27 October 2020. Before reading this book, I kind of figured that little of the TV show was accurate, so was a bit surprised that the writer of the TV show obviously did some research on real historical figures. Even if the TV show counterparts share little more with the real figures than their names and vague ethnicities. I get the feeling that Steven Knight probably grew up hearing some of these names in local legend about various hard men and just ran with it. I have to admit I am not a huge fan of the TV show. I watched the first three seasons and then I got the feeling it was just a few powerful "cool" scenes that he didn't really know what to do with. So I couldn't say how much a massive fan of the show would like this book. The folk etymology of Peaky Blinder is that the gang members would stitch disposable razor blades into the peaks of their flat caps, which could then be used as weapons. However, as the Gillette company introduced the first replaceable safety razor system in 1903, in the United States, and the first factory manufacturing them in Great Britain opened in 1908, this idea of the origin of the name is considered to be apocryphal. [2] British author John Douglas, from Birmingham, said hats were used as weapons in his novel A Walk Down Summer Lane [3] – members with razor blades sewn into their caps would headbutt enemies to potentially blind them, [4] or the caps would be used to slash foreheads, causing blood to pour down into the eyes of their enemies, temporarily blinding them. Chinn, Carl (2021). Peaky Blinders: the aftermath: the real story behind the next generation of British gangsters. London: John Blake Publishing Ltd. ISBN 9781789464511. OCLC 1309300519.