Peaky Blinders - The Real Story

Join Kirklees Libraries' Writer-in-Residence, Christina Longden in conversation with Carl Chinn:
Thursday February 11th
6.30 -7.30pm

Well-known social historian Carl Chinn has spent decades searching them out, one of whom was his own great grandfather, and, like the Shelbys, his grandfather was an illegal bookmaker in the back-streets of Birmingham in the 1920s.
In this gripping social history book, Carl Chinn shines a light on the rarely reported struggles of the working class in one of the great cities of the British Empire before the First World War.
Drawing together a remarkably wide-range of original sources, including rarely seen images of real Peaky Blinders and interviews with relatives of the 1920s gangsters, Peaky Blinders: The Real Story adds a new dimension to the true history of Birmingham’s under world and highlights the fact behind fiction.

Streamed live on Kirklees Libraries' YouTube channel and Facebook page but also available to catch up with later.

For more information visit https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOHGa_s7w-124ex4d0BdjFw