Peaky Blinders: The Real Story with Carl Chinn

Thursday 18th November, 8pm.

Join us for a book launch and historical talk from Prof Carl Chinn MBE about the real Peaky Blinders.

The fictional Peaky Blinders as we know them, are infused with drama and dread. Fashionably dressed, the charismatic but deeply flawed Shelby family blind enemies by slashing them with the disposable safety razor blades stitched into the peaks of their flat caps.

But who were the real peaky blinders? Well-known social historian Carl Chinn has spent decades searching them out, one of whom was his own great grandfather, and, like the Shelbys, his grandfather was an illegal bookmaker in the backstreets of Birmingham in the 1920s.

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