Peaky Blinders: Not just another bad apple

By Paul Kalina
April 17 2014 - 3:00am
The lads: Old-school gangs.
The lads: Old-school gangs.

Birmingham, 1919. There's gangs, abject poverty and hordes of desperate people scraping a living in whatever way they can, from crude horse-racing scams and smuggling to extortion. The universal poverty is leavened only by the effects of alcohol and drugs.

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