Peaky Blinders, Stephen Knight’s epic spaghetti western set in Birmingham about a hoodlum family and their gang has become a phenomenon that has run to five series so far and is set to spawn a Hollywood feature film.But the historical truth behind the series is just as shocking and offers a profound insight into the explosion of working-class violence that erupted in Victorian towns and cities in the 1870s and gave rise to a subculture that we still see in today’s inner city gangs and in the football hooligan in their 1970s and 80s heyday.We explore the causes – social deprivation and disenfranchisement – and the rise of the phenomenon.
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