The Real Peaky Blinders: An Evening with Professor Carl Chinn - Nottingham

Want to know more about the real Peaky Blinders? In celebration of the new film, Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man, join us for a very special evening with Professor Carl Chinn, author of Peaky Blinders: The Real Gangs and Gangsters.

You know who the Peaky Blinders are ... It's time to see where they began.

At the turn of the twentieth century, Birmingham was seemingly transforming into a wealthy, bustling metropolis, celebrated for its manufacturing and local government. Yet behind this optimistic facade, the poorest and most vulnerable in society were abandoned. This longstanding inequality aroused unrest, sparking violence and terror from backstreet gangsters who'd become known as peaky blinders.

In this fourth instalment of the bestselling series, historian Carl Chinn draws upon his decades of expertise and his own family history to reveal even more about these notorious gangs, going back to where it all began. Chinn exposes the real people whose bloody feuds, murders and maiming, baiting of police officers, bullying of the decent poor, gendered violence, blackmailing, and disturbing roles in political riots and racist attacks made Birmingham infamous as the city of the Peaky Blinders.

Carl will discuss his books before an audience Q&A and book signing.

Professor Carl Chinn MBE Ph.D.is a social historian with a national profile, writer, public speaker, and teacher. An off-course bookmaker himself until 1984, he is the son and grandson of illegal bookmakers in Sparkbrook, and the great-grandson of a peaky blinder, whilst his mother's family were factory workers in Aston. His writings are deeply affected by his family's working-class background and life in the back-to-backs of Birmingham and he passionately believes that history must be democratised because each and every person has made their mark upon history and has a story to tell.

Please note the book and ticket package includes a copy of Peaky Blinders: The Real Gangs and Gangsters.

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