The Real Peaky Blinders

Billy Kimber; the Birmingham Gang and the Racecourse Wars of the 1920's. Stylish and dark, the BBC series the 'Peaky Blinders' is set in the backstreets of Birmingham after the First World War and tells of the rise to power of Thomas Shelby and his criminal gang. Yet the real stories behind these fictional characters are just as dramatic, bloody and compelling as the TV series.