The Peaky Blinders were a criminal gang based in Birmingham, England, during the Victorian era. Members of this gang wore a signature outfit: tailored jackets, a lapel overcoat, button waistcoats, silk scarves, bell-bottom trousers, leather boots, and peaked flat caps. During the 1890s, the slums of Birmingham were overtaken by violent street gangs who, upon the turn of the 20th century, became highly organised with their own systems of hierarchy. Their violent tendencies led to vast amounts of political control and social power. A gang known as the “Sloggers” were the first major rivals of the Blinders and fought them in “post code battles” over land. The Peaky Blinders held various levels of control of Birmingham for nearly 20 years, largely concluding in 1910, when a larger gang, the Birmingham Boys led by Billy Kimber, overtook them. The gang’s history is covered in the BBC programme of the same name, storying an alternate history where they contend the underworld positions of th…
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