#220 | The Real Peaky Blinders

✨ Back To School Sale - Save 25% - https://dripl.ink/MUYZHEnds 23:59, Sunday 6th September.--Charles Dickens made the Victorian workhouse famous, but the reality behind Oliver Twist was even worse than fiction. This episode tells how workhouses treated Britain’s poorest people, a ...  Show more

✨ Back To School Sale - Save 25% - https://dripl.ink/MUYZHEnds 23:59, Sunday 6th September.--He wears a red hat, carries a stick, and laughs as he beats almost everyone he meets. This episode tells the odd, violent story of Punch and Judy, the puppet show that began in Italy and ...  Show more

Between the 1890s and 1910s, the British city of Birmingham was in the grip of a gang: the Peaky Blinders. Their crimes – from stone-throwing and petty assault to murder – were unpredictable and senseless, and the police seemed powerless to stop it. So what’s the true story behin ...  Show more

Who were the real Peaky Blinders? Did they really exist? Carl Chinn reveals the true story of the notorious gangs that roamed Birmingham's streets during the city's industrial heyday.

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On the smog-filled streets of industrial Birmingham, groups of ‘Peaky Blinders’ earned a reputation as Britain’s most feared gang, terrorizing anybody who stepped in their paths with bats, blades and whatever else they could get their hands on. They ruled the UK’s second city unt ...  Show more

📖 Episode Transcripts in Link Below ⬇️ Today, we delve into one of the most captivating criminal organizations of the 20th century: the Peaky Blinders. https://patreon.com/HistoryinSlowGerman?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_con ...  Show more