You can find them all here: Billy Kimber, Darby Sabini, and Alfie Solomon… But who were the real Peaky Blinders? Thanks to the famous television series, the Peaky Blinders have become synonymous with audacity, prestige, and violence.

Charismatic yet heavily flawed, the Shelby family roams the poor neighborhoods with wild intentions, leaving bloody chaos in their wake. Prominent historian Karl Chin, a descendant of a Peaky Blinder and the son of a Birmingham illegal betting bookmaker, vividly reveals the real events behind the television fiction.

In this captivating social history, which chronicles the rise and fall of the most notorious criminals in British history, we witness the struggles of the working class in one of the great cities of the British Empire, before the First World War.