Summary of Carl Chinn's The Real Peaky Blinders

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#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.

Sujets

• Organized Crime
• True Crime

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 11 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822505384
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Carl Chinn's The Real Peaky Blinders
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#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.

#5

The peaky blinders were the first gang in Birmingham, England, and they gained infamy across Britain as well as in Birmingham. They were a group of violent petty thieves.

#6

Derrick was a serial offender who was arrested in 1901 for drunkenness. He was sentenced to two months’ hard labor, and in 1906, he was sentenced to two months for stealing a basket carriage. He later married Ada Weldon, and they had a daughter.

#7

The peaky blinders were a group of men in Birmingham who were notorious for their violence and lawbreaking, and they were put down by the police chief Charles Haughton Rafter in 1914.

#8

The first episode of Peaky Blinders, a BBC show about a gang in Birmingham in the 1920s, depicted the city as being ruled by gangs made up of hundreds of youths armed with knives, razor blades, and hammers.

#9

The reputation of Birmingham’s gangs for violence was due to its slogging gangs. The name came from the word slogger – someone who struck heavy blows. The term sloggers raised images of Birmingham’s back street ruffians, who first came to notice in April 1872.

#10

The police in Birmingham were overwhelmed by the amount of stone throwing that was happening, and they believed that it was caused by the lack of proper recreation grounds. They had no public space to use.

#11

The street was the living room and playground of the poor, and their unity was strengthened by endogamy and matrilocality. The street belonged to them, and they belonged to it.

#12

The tradition of loyalty to the street among teenage boys remained a strong feature of poorer working-class life well into the twentieth century.

#13

The less aggressive attitude of many working-class teenagers towards the police was a major difference to the fighting with weapons and the peaky blinders of the era.

#14

The police were seen as enemies by many working-class youths in the mid to late-nineteenth century because they were enforcing laws that attacked popular culture, which was often centered around sports and illegal amusements.

#15

The police were increasingly encouraged to take an interventionist approach towards street activities that were not deemed rational recreation. This led to the emergence of the street gangs that led to the slogging gangs and peaky blinders.

#16

The police were often slow to respond to outbreaks of street disorder, and they were also outnumbered by the crowds of young men playing pitch and toss.