This book explores the real history behind the Peaky Blinders gangs of early 20th-century Birmingham — not the fictional Shelby family from the TV show, but the actual street gangs. Carl Chinn, a social historian whose own family had ties to the real Peaky Blinders, draws on interviews, historical records, and family stories to unpack how these gangs formed, operated, and evolved. He also sheds light on the socio-economic conditions of working-class Birmingham, showing how poverty, race, class, and crime intersected in the rise of the gangland underworld.