174: The Peaky Blinders: Fact Vs. Fiction w/ Carl Chinn - A True Crime History Podcast

Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

Erik Rivenes

True Crime, History, Education

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

My guest on this episode has a very personal connection to the subject of his many decades of research. His great-grandfather was a member of one of the Peaky Blinders gangs that terrorized the city of Birmingham in the late 1800s.

British historian Carl Chinn, author of "Peaky Blinders: The Real Story" and its sequel, "Peaky Blinders: The Legacy", joins me not only to share some of the history of the many gangs that battled each other in turn of the twentieth century England, but also to dispel many of the historical inaccuracies from the popular Peaky Blinders television series.

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0:30.4	On this episode of the Most Matorious Podcast, the Peaky Blinders and other notorious turn-of-the-century
0:40.1	English gangs.
0:42.8	Unlike the series, there are no real central characters to the real Peaky Blinders Eric.
0:50.0	So my first book, there's lots of names in it because there are no central characters.
0:56.0	There's some tough families like the Sheldons.
0:58.4	There's another family that there's no Taurus from Astro called The Simpsons.
1:02.2	They're the Tokie Brothers who feature later on.
1:05.2	But there's no dominant characters as we see in the series.
1:09.4	These are fluid, immor, amorphous gangs.
1:12.7	Very difficult to find out lots about the characters involved because the only time they come
1:17.6	into the light of history is when they are arrested.
1:20.9	You might find something in a newspaper,
1:23.3	I'll obviously in the police records.
1:25.5	Welcome everyone to another episode of the Most Matorious Podcast.
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