Peaky Blinders. (Photo by BBC/Caryn Mandabach Productions Ltd/Tiger Aspect/Robert Viglasky)

Peaky Blinders

The real history behind the hit BBC drama Peaky Blinders – including the real gangsters of Birmingham, Glasgow and beyond

An 1872 illustration from the weekly newspaper Days’ Doings shows a shoplifter being apprehended (Photo by Look and Learn/Rosenberg Collection/Bridgeman Images)

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Sir Oswald Mosley taking the salute from female members of the BUF

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Cillian Murphy as Tommy Shelby in season six of 'Peaky Blinders'

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The Kray brothers

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Billy Fullerton, gang chief of the Glasgow gang the Billy Boys

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A cartoon from 1862 shows a pair 'garroters' attacking a victim. (Photo by The Cartoon Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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A real Peaky Blinder mug-shot

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19th-century mugshots

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Aidan Turner as Ross Poldark. The BBC television drama is putting Cornwall’s coastline at risk of "over-tourism” as visitors flock to the area to visit the show's scenic filming locations, tourism chiefs have warned. (Photo by BBC/Mammoth Screen/Mike Hogan)

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