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The Real Peaky Blinders
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. Thomas Shelby's arch enemy Billy Kimber was in real life a Brummie from Summer Lane. He was a feared fighter with an astute mind and magnetic personality which earned him the leadership of the Birmingham Gang that dominated the highly profitable protection rackets of the racecourses of England. The members of this gang had once been 'sloggers' or 'peaky blinders' and their rise to supremacy was attributable to their viciousness and to Kimber's shrewd alliances with other gangs. But they soon incurred the envy of the Sabini Gang of London who fought violently to oust Kimber and his men and take over their rackets. The Birmingham Gang battled back fiercely in the infamous and blood-stained racecourse wars of the 1920s. This Birmingham Gang led by Billy Kimber were the Real Peaky Blinders and this is their story.
Brum and Brummies
Dr Carl Chinn MBE is well known as an academic, broadcaster and author. A passionate Brummie, he is Community Historian at The University of Birmingham, a regular columnist for The Birmingham Evening Mail, and a presenter of his own local history radio show from BBC Pebble Mill. He is also the author of many books on Birmingham's history. Meticulously researched, Brum and Brummies 3 includes extracts from the many accounts sent to Carl by men and women who remember the Birmingham of yesteryear. This third fully illustrated volume on the people and places of old Birmingham will reawaken many memories. The book is dedicated, in the author's words, to all Brummies proud of our city and proud of our forebears.
Birmingham
This new, factually rich and visually stunning publication is the first major history of Birmingham for more than four decades.
Poverty Amidst Prosperity
Demonstrates how people reacted to poverty and highlights their coping strategies
Better Betting with a Decent Feller
Today, branches of chains such as William Hill and Ladbrokes are familiar sights in high streets across Britain, and betting takes place on all sorts of events - from horse-racing to general elections, from football-match results to the likelihood of snow falling on Christmas Day. Yet until 1961 street bookmakers were illegal, and old prejudices are slow to fade away. A stigma is still attached to bookmaking, and for many people bookmakers remain a disreputable and shady lot. This book sets out to examine why this is the case. Social historian Carl Chinn was himself a bookmaker, like his father and grandfather before him, and therefore brings his own unique perspective to this lively and highly readable account of the profession's history, from its origins among the sharpsters who hoodwinked punters at racecourses, to the illegal street bookies who offered the working class a tantalising escape from poverty, to the growth of leisure empires such as Coral and William Hill.
Peaky Blinders - The Real Gangs and Gangsters
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.
Summary of Carl Chinn's The Real Peaky Blinders
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I first wrote about the peaky blinders in 1986 in my doctoral thesis on the Ladypool Road neighborhood of Sparkbrook. In 1987, I began researching for my second book, a social history of illegal bookmaking. #2 A book of this size could not have been published without the support and expertise of a talented team. I would like to thank the following people for their contributions: Mike Gibbs, Publishing Director at History West Midlands, for his enthusiasm and commitment to the history of Birmingham and the Black Country; and Bonnier Books UK, for their input, enthusiasm, and support. #3 The BBC2 series Peaky Blinders, which was set in 1919, grabbed a riveted audience from its first scene. It tells the story of a feared and dangerous gang called the Peaky Blinders that rules the Small Heath district of Birmingham. #4 The Peaky Blinders series is an international sensation, and it has been praised by many critics. But the real characters, events, and places drawn from historical obscurity by the show were not glamorous gangsters, but back-street thugs.
Digbeth, Deritend & Highgate Through Time
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Digbeth, Deritend & Highgate have changed and developed over the last century.
