Steven Knight's crime drama series Peaky Blinders is based on a real-life gang notorious for their illegal activities in 1880s Birmingham.

Yet the real Peaky Blinders existed much earlier than that. The gang were first referenced in reports in the late 19th Century, and disappeared before World War 1, but their unsavoury reputation ...

Harry Fowler, Ernest Bayles, Stephen McHickie and Thomas Gilbert, pictured, were members of the notorious 'Peaky Blinders' gang which terrorised Birmingham around the turn of the 20th century ...

Steven Knight developed Peaky Blinders, a British criminal drama series. Set in post-World War I Birmingham, it follows Tommy Shelby and his legendary Peaky Blinders gang as they ascend to prominence ...

Aspects of Peaky Blinders are based on a true story, but it can be difficult to separate fact from fiction. Cillian Murphy plays Thomas Shelby, a war hero who uses his outsider status and ...

The Peaky Blinders were indeed a real gang on the streets of Birmingham. In fact, they were also real rivals of the Sabinis and the Birmingham Boys. Similarly to Thomas Shelby’s work in Peaky ...

Peaky Blinders season five came to an end on BBC One last night, concluding the latest outing based on the real gang that operated in Birmingham in the 1990s. Tied into this story was a number of ...

Finn Cole, who plays the recently departed's cousin Michael Gray in the gritty BBC drama, is in fact, Joe's real-life brother ... including Digital Spy, Peaky Blinders creator and writer Steven ...

PEAKY Blinders was a huge hit for the BBC, with its dark plot of gang life in the late 19th century. But some fans may not know that the show was actually inspired by real life Birmingham ...