The Fascinating True Story That Inspired 'Peaky Blinders'

[@CowgirlSamurai]

Quote of the day! "... an idiot in fancy clothing is still just an idiot."

[@ShelbySteele23]

Based on everything going on in the world lately this is the quote of the decade

[@leewalker23]

To be fair, bbc never put "based on true events" or "based on true story" on Peaky Blinders' covers so they are free to change history however they wish

[@Austin3859]

yeah kind of like how Quentin Tarantino did it with inglorious bastards and once apon a time. as long as it isn't slander or too modern I think its fine

[@Siixks.]

to be faaiirrr

[@gbwildlifeuk8269]

If the bbc do put "based on true events" or "based on a true story" they can still change history in order to enhance the story. "Based on" doesnt mean totally true but the true event or story are only the foundations.

[@leewalker23]

@@gbwildlifeuk8269 yeah but in this case, they went straight 180 on the facts

[@elperrodelautumo7511]

Peaky blinders deserve to have their own gta style video game

[@topgtate4750]

“Peaky”

[@trashcanhands19]

@@topgtate4750 Apparently you were never robbed & beaten by those Pesky Blinders lot ; ]

[@broughton90]

That would be amazing

[@mrducky179]

well the closest you can get is by playing mafia 1

[@broughton90]

@@mrducky179 and GTA 5

[@raeniedai9706]

Can we see one on the real gangs of New York?

[@jlshel42]

I second this! Scorsese's movie did reference real people, just in a wacky fun story

[@Iburn247]

They had one I think

[@neymar1970]

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[@thedudeabiding1582]

Dead Rabbits!

[@monkeygraborange]

@@thedudeabiding1582 The Plug Uglies!

[@TheWifeRottenRomance]

You should do a video on serial killer Jack Unterweger. He was an Austrian murderer who wrote poetry, children’s stories, and books while imprisoned. Celebrities, writers, even Nobel winners petitioned for his release on the grounds that his articulate, educated writings proved he was rehabilitated. They secured his release after serving the minimum sentence, and Unterweger went on a tour, talking about his “successful” rehabilitation. He was then discovered to be killing sex workers in several countries he visited, including the US. He stayed at the famous Cecil Hotel, which is another interesting connection.

[@zoso1up]

It is a crazy story worth a video

[@TheWifeRottenRomance]

@@zoso1up it really is. The fact that all these people tried to get him out even EARLIER than the minimum sentence is just mind boggling to me. Just because someone writes well doesn’t mean they’re a good person.

[@donovanchilton5817]

The last podcast on the left covered Unterweger. Worth a listen.

[@gabbyparr6099]

@@donovanchilton5817 I came here to say the same thing! It’s an unnerving and unbelievable case.

[@talldave1000]

I wish the show didn't end with Season 6. Fantastic writing, acting, plot, scenery, everything

[@Buquenque]

I think there’s a movie coming out

[@chadrickmansfield]

The real life gang was pretty much disbanded by the late 1920's and series 6 takes place in 1929 so the writers essentially wrote themselves out of a show.

[@juanzulu1318]

I found the role of the chief Inspector, later Major, extremely badly written. So cliche and one-dimensional, even absurd if we talk about some of the plots like his interaction with Polly. The rest was ok.

[@thegeneralofsound]

I love when history and tv combine

[@belongtobill]

Seeing the photos from the actual show makes me so happy, and then Helen showed up and I started crying. This is one of my favourite videos of yours. Thank you for this!

[@Only.D.G.]

*Consoom intensifies*

[@_dylansaeed]

You need to touch some grass

[@zeusathena26]

This is my favorite show, & I'm glad you covered this. I knew what was true, & false already, but still enjoyed this!

[@beemelonhead1]

We need a parody sequel called "Stabby Cappys." 😆

[@teklegion]

oh yes, that's my next screen name lol

[@thomasburt4422]

Oh boy. With Simon Pegg as Stabby Cappy leader Shomas Tellsby.

[@Henry-ms1sl]

My home city! Birmingham is still as rough as it was back then maybe worse now. I work in the city centre too and you see some mad stuff happening. Our city has had a lot of different gangs over the years, but the history behind these and the show is something which is hard not to be drawn to, thanks for the video

[@fanfam]

Is it not a lot of muslims today? I live in Holland. Just asking. Thx.

[@mikitz]

Did you have Hell's Grannies at some point?

[@Seventeen_Syllables]

Mine too! Only mine is in Alabama. Other than that they seem to be pretty much the same.

[@jamaljohnson1948]

London is for the Muslims now, RIP

[@fanroche8573]

@@fanfam what an idiotic comment..

[@johanfehr9743]

" like Elton John going to work in a coal mine " had my tea flying on the screen. unexpectedly. best laugh in a while. Thank you.

[@NewMessage]

I'd tip my cap, but the razor I keep there keeps cutting my thumb.

[@ashleelarsen5002]

How does that make sense?

[@broughton90]

@@ashleelarsen5002 because if you've seen peaky blinders they keep razors sawen to beaks to slash people wen needed so he's saying wen he grabs his beak he cuts his fingers 🙄

[@ashleelarsen5002]

@@broughton90 oh! Sorry, ya I like non-fiction. Documentaries and such. Happy Weekend!!

[@christyluvs80sXo]

😆

[@funbumskum]

Shit mine been cutting me up too thought I was the only one

[@donjon123]

Another interesting fact is Billy Kimber (the antagonist in the first season of peaky blinders) was actually a peaky blinder in real life.

[@Rando_Shyte]

That's awesome if true! :)

[@redandblackpill]

​@@Rando_Shyte peaky blinder were a rag tag group of petty thieves it was billy kimber who mad a systemized way of gang stuff and he like tommy in season 1 took over central and norther uk horse race track business and unlike peaky blinders in which season 2 they expand south to london and succed billy kimber tries and fails after big bloody gang war and in show tommy takes london without a shot being fired

[@joy5816]

Thank you for this video! This is my favorite show right now!

[@GuppyCzar]

Someone recommended Peaky Blinders to us, and I'm so thankful they did! What a great show! Now when I'm suffering from Insomnia I have a show I can put on that has me sleeping like a baby within fifteen minutes.

[@000luvrnhatr000]

You don’t f*ck with the Peaky Blinders!!! -Arthers voice. If you know you know 🎩

[@donHooligan]

peaky fookin blinders

[@rileyzalbert8696]

Best episode in a while

[@coupdsantana206]

Stabby cappys or the slice hats hahahaha 😆

[@jlshel42]

Oddjob approves of the latter. And Random Task.

[@marcusmoonstein242]

The combination of an expensive tailored suit worn with a working-class cloth cap would have been very distinctive at the time. Back then your clothes really said a lot about your social class, and your social class mattered a lot more than it does now. Working men wore a cloth cap with cheap and practical clothes, while the better off wore proper hats with tailored suits. Mixing cloth caps with tailored suits would have looked bizarre, especially when combined with the working-class accents these men would have spoken with.

[@robertraymond762]

Interesting. I wonder what combinations of clothing would reproduce the same effect in today's world? Could it, even?

[@marcusmoonstein242]

@@robertraymond762 Steve Jobs wearing jeans and a sweater. Any middle-class person in America could wear exactly the same thing if they wanted to. Alternatively, rap stars with diamond studded gold teeth and speaking with a ghetto accent, but wearing tailored suits.

[@jpmitchell925]

@@robertraymond762 probably like wearing a baseball cap with a tuxedo.

[@6idangle]

@@robertraymond762 that’s a very good question, I suspect no combination of clothing would do so. Fashion now specifically for men is very ironic, and influenced by urban culture to begin with. Mens street wear of the 90 and 2000s came to Paris and American fashion houses via the likes of Virgil abloh and all high fashion takes it cues from street wear, this is in the casual wear context then there is the question of suits and business contexts. That being said business culture has its own high class form of dress and I assume it would be like mixing cheap suits with Gucci? An often “low class” thing to do when wearing a suit is to do loud colors like red and over accessorize so maybe something like that would be a dead give away

[@lightfm90]

@@robertraymond762 Tuxedo top and swim shorts and flip flops

[@erikaclifton3730]

I have heard of sharpened pennies being sewn into cap brims.

[@snakey319]

Have to admit that these gangs were better dressed and better looking than the ones in NYC at the same time. there's an old book on them called Gangs of NY, they stole the name for the movies. The gang Pug Uglies is true advertising.

[@KuyaHandyKap]

imagine a group of swingers calling themselves "kinky binders"🤣😂

[@zoso1up]

An actual lol

[@neilpuckett359]

Go to your room lol

[@akramgimmini8165]

Great Content as Always 👌

[@IDidntAskU]

Thomas Gilbert is really Dr. Phil 2:28

[@kurtporter4796]

Keep up the great work guys love your videos,even the narrator love how he makes a joke now and then ,lol.

[@Heygoodlooking-lk9kg]

I hate that, get an english narrator, it's English history

[@nickd3157]

If i got head-butted and robbed my ronald mcdonald, well, i would probably check myself into a hospital and quit drinking.

[@bonitamojica5254]

Hm.. I assumed it was when people peaked out of their blinds to look and see what the fuss was about 🤣

[@PresidentFunnyValentine]

Wasnt expecting that Warriors reference, but I'm not complaining.

[@therealdarklizzy]

"Industrial boom led to poverty" Funny how that works out...

[@natascha5864]

@Dark Lizzy ; Easy. Industry only works when "someone works in the industry". But whose "life vision" is working in a factory??? So you always had to force people to work in the factory...and poverty will do the trick! That´s the same in Russia in the 1930s; Stalin confiscated and burnt the harvest and thus forced the farmers to leave for the cities and either starve to death or work in the factories...many died in the streets! My father was born in 1924, he was only a kid in Charkov at that time, but everybody was starving, since the harvest had been destroyed, so my father and our family was also struggling to survive back then. Stalin was a ruthless murderer, even to his own people! We know what we are talking about! And everyone who lived at that time and survived will tell you the same!

[@quasi405]

Would love to see one on the “Dead Rabbits” street gang of New York

[@btetschner]

A+ video! LOVE IT! Very unique and fashionable history!

[@jonathancornah2245]

You weren't familiar with the term 'fishmonger' until this script? America continues to amaze.

[@GuppyCzar]

Its not an American thing, its a "this particular American should probably get out more" thing. I grew up knowing what mongers were be they fish, cheese, or any other goods.

[@lisac2106]

As someone from Birmingham uk , never heard a blinder being someone dressed well , more something done well

[@JudeNance]

I love the history, the stories and their clothes 😍

[@jhernandez891]

I don't watch this show but I definitely will be keeping an eye out now.

[@ladytron1724]

A great book to read is No mean city by H Kingsley Long set in Glasgow during the early 20th century.gangs,slums and violence it’s got it all.

[@craigfazekas3923]

Ace Frehley (guitarist in Kiss) was in a gang called The Ducky Boys in The Bronx. 🚬😎

[@Hamnah2002]

Ahhhhhhhh my favorite channel and my favorite show all in one!!

[@Holly-Pocket]

I could listen to this narrator talk about anything - I wish he had been my history teacher

[@_hi_pwr]

Thank you, ty so much

[@grapeshot]

The Gangs of New York the UK Edition.

[@danielmimms3774]

The gangs of old york

[@Boru06]

The razorblades in the peaks is true. They did it in Dublin too.

[@BonShula]

This is a myth that Carl Chinn, author of Peaky Blinders The Real Story, who was also born and bred in Brum, remembers from his youth.

[@ladytron1724]

Same in Glasgow,the saying was 2 with the head and one with the bunnet (cap)

[@MelissaJones-lj5de]

Excellent video! Thanks!

[@jgallardo7344]

Can you do a video on the real events that inspired “Gangs of New York”? Maybe even a video on Tammany Hall and Political bosses

[@glitchito5961]

Yeah it could be interesting to see more of the new york society in this era

[@quanbrooklynkid7776]

@@glitchito5961 yea

[@mermaidmersea7113]

Just stopped in for Tommy! He makes me weak!❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥

[@mikeyfn-a6684]

SO psyched for this next and final season 😁

[@adnanomer9089]

Hold up. It's not finished?

[@Epochal_Enigmas]

@@adnanomer9089 Pretty sure it's finished, but they are making a movie which is gonna be some sort of an epilogue of the last season. I'm not sure

[@mount-of-olives]

Where is Peaky Blinders found? I'd like to watch it :-)

[@adnanomer9089]

@@Epochal_Enigmas yeah because that looked like an ending to me even though they left some things behind. A movie sound more reasonable than a whole season

[@mikeyfn-a6684]

Oh wow! I didn't realize this, I was expecting a genuine season, but alrite! 😎👍

[@pelnarius2446]

For something that only happened 130 years ago, you would think they would know exactly where the name came from.

[@sleeping4cat]

Slice hats sounds cool! 😂

[@redfive5856]

How many different ways can one person pronounce "Birmingham"? Is Birmingham in London? Narrator seems to think so.

[@jon77834]

@Alerio Murillo probably because many American cities are named after English towns and cities

[@belongtobill]

BER-MING-UM

[@christophermatthews9181]

I think a lot of Americans think England is just London

[@jon77834]

@@christophermatthews9181 anything outside of London is just floating around in space. "Pluto" is Spanish for Ghana. And Canada can be found just outside the Oort cloud

[@redfive5856]

@@belongtobill that's one of the ways he said it.

[@andershaukoos]

Dude at 2:50 actually looks like Tommy haha

[@Hamnah2002]

“By the Order of the Peaky Blinders” says Arthur.

[@rhino5100]

"Apparently, people would feel better about being robbed, if they could see how the money was being spent." Nice! That's the type of content I return for, time and time again!

[@mikitz]

'Hell, at least I was mugged and robbed and not fucked by the government...'

[@pinkdiamonds9137]

Love Birmingham! Lived there for 3 years, so much character. I went to the Black Country Living Museum a couple times, where a lot of Peaky Blinders scenes were filmed, so cool. Brum will always be home to me. Impressed to hear an American pronounce it correctly 😂

[@SidharthPriyadarsh]

Tommy Shelby is literally a meme nowadays

[@pipa8471]

The Most depressing programme I've ever watched 😳 dark skies the rain the factorys the fog and more so the poverty

[@lawtonloraine4144]

You are right I lived there 50 years ago and that is how it was, miserable violent place and the show is pretty true. You would go months and never see the sky for dirty black clouds. The Shelby are based on the sheldons who still existed in the 70s. I’m from Dora road small Heath.

[@Kennygrhm1]

It’s cinematic entertainment… Let it go, it’s a work of art. Let it be what it is…Golden.

[@btetschner]

2:45 One of my classmates in graduated school was a Phishhead, she travelled and sold patchwork pants so she could go to all of their concerts.

[@jackhackett80]

haha "The Slicehats"

[@lerneanlion]

I've recently come across an interesting information about Western Xia! If this channel interested, please check out how peoples in Western Xia dressed themselves! And you guys will see that the Qing dynasty was not the first one to introduce the idea of "Cut your hair, keep your heads. Keep your hairs, you will lose your heads" to its peoples!

[@majuuorthrus3340]

My ancestors (I think great or great-great grandparents) left Birmingham because of Peaky Blinders activity. Apparently if you walked too close to the buildings, you were likely to get stabbed from an alley.

[@BrokenDread]

I wanna see something on famous comedian George Carlin.

[@faridarridho8620]

bro why my bedroom feel so cold right now? oh yeah, there is thomas slebew right there 🥶🥶

[@Mikupigeon]

One peaky blinders historian who is also a direct desendent of real peaky blinder members said that they didn't have razer blade in their hats.

[@reginleif6703]

I’m shocked. A TV show isn’t accurate?

[@questfortruth665]

These guys seemed to have differentiated each other's members by their choice of hats! They were pretty good dressers as well! I wouldn't be able to tell a banker from a thug!

[@Leppymusic]

I still can't tell that to this day 🤣

[@juanpablosaenz9037]

You played yourself with the last phrase mate. 🤣

[@salesse84]

I've always found the term 'fish monger' amusing as well. 😅

[@satanofficial3902]

"Fish are fishy because they're fished with fishiness." ---Albert Einstein

[@reapersritehand]

Sounds like yall are skipping over alot and making as many assumptions as the show does

[@oddjob1932]

It's historically improbable that the original 1800s peaky blinders had razor blades sewn into their caps peak (edited from impossible to improbable) 👍

[@TinSandwichUK]

I agree as Gillette patented the first safety razor in 1904. Even if there were similar (disposable when blunt) razors about they would have been expensive and one sewn into a cap doesn't make the cap an effective fighting weapon.

[@kristiskinner8542]

3:10 yes they do know, its the way they wore their caps down over one eye.

[@gregkral4467]

Odd what strikes me as interesting, and when i wonder, here you are..... thanks, wonderful research and explanation vids. love your work, all.... always do seem to find ya in suggestions, when i am in the mood to really hear it.... awesome.

[@Ddnmddnn]

This video is so COLD🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶

[@Myriako]

Thank you for this video! 😀🌺

[@darraghmcconn]

Loving these guys. Keep up the great content

[@btetschner]

5:03 Astra is the name of Supergirl's aunt in the tv series Supergirl. She is played by Laura Benanti (who was born the same year I was in 1979).

[@persebunny]

ayo the man at 3:00🤌🤌

[@jacktheobalt8362]

Members of the OSS used to sew razors into their hats.

[@btetschner]

4:53 That looks like a Paper Boy cap. The first daily job I had was as a Paper boy.

[@uppityglivestockian]

This is a great channel. So glad I'm a subscriber.

[@jeremiahmcfetridge4688]

I'd like to see one about being a stage coach shotgun man.

[@claytonfrag]

im from birmingham, razor blades in the hat did happen. a couple of older chaps told me in the pub in the mid nineties when they were young. would have been 50's though. so not exactly peakies

[@electricden]

This is what probably fed into the stories from Steven Knight's Birmingham grandparents, the stories which first influenced him into writing the show in the first place, rather than the ACTUAL historical Victorian members so named, which I guess is something he discovered in his research. Then, wanting a more fashionably attractive period, he transplanted his fictitious veterans of the WWI trenches into powerful gang leaders of the 1920s, rather than pesky troublemakers of the 1890s, which further allowed him to equally feed in fictitious connections from them to REAL though small bits of Birmingham and English history during that time, though sadly due to Birmingham apart from the Black Country Museum just outside of it in Dudley NOT having ANY historical locations of the period, so filming the first series anyway mainly in Liverpool (Ringo Starr's original home as the exterior for the Shelbys) and Manchester, but still using REAL place names in the city for these locations (which confused me, a born citizen of the city!). So, to me, with its horses and gunplay, and playing around with history and characters of the time the series in its original form is more of a FANTASY URBAN WESTERN, which gradually morphs, for the better once a good part of the story leaves Birmingham in later series, into a pretty good twenties and thirties British gangster series which I enjoy more (ironically, there was ANOTHER show actually called 'Gangsters', which was set in Birmingham and this time actually shot there, including using Duran Duran's original 70s nightclub, The Rum Runner, which was a big hit at the time, so if you want to see gangs in the real city I suggest you watch that!).

[@zach7193]

Michael Franzese just did a review on this Monday.

[@garybenjaminjr7664]

You should do an episode on the bikie wars in Australia

[@foxmccloud7055]

Can we see the magazine article that inpired "Top Gun" and "Top Gun: Maverick"?

[@jilltagmorris]

This was super great!!!

[@scottnotpilgrim]

So the true story behind the gang with all those quotes full of things they never said

[@bwines16]

Stephen McHickie be looking fiiiiine tho

[@charlesmiller3667]

Hello 👋, and how are you?

[@The7Reaper]

Modern day gangs definitely have cooler names now that's for sure

[@sobinsobington3685]

I've been watching peaky blinders the same way Mr frog watches Jimmy Fallon

[@skylerpartridge8570]

I have an idea for 5 episodes! 1.The Gonzalez sisters 2. The kray twins, (you may have done this one already) 3. Fred and Rose West 4. The Harpe brothers 5. The bloody benders Hope one or all makes the cut, thanks!

[@jamesmoss3424]

Those peaky blinders are a problem back in the day.

[@st.anselmsfire3547]

"Fancy Headbutters" is a way cooler name. They should've gone with that.

[@timothydurkan]

I kinda like the Slice Hats.

[@pierreblaise9433]

Can you make an episode about the second pacific squadron and the infamous Kamchatka ?

[@nickgov66]

You should look at the Fewtrell family who were prominent in the Birmingham underworld in the mid 20th century.

[@electricden]

And their VICIOUS and successful battles in keeping the more famous London Kray brother's influence out of the midlands too in the 60s.

[@bushcraftdudes1500]

Gilbert looking like dr Phil

[@NekoJesusPie]

“What is it with XIX Brits being named after clothing” This ain’t bait, it’s magnetism for violence.

[@ToniInSussex]

Those really dark streets were shot in Liverpool L8, on what are affectionately called The Welsh Streets, as all of the street names are Welsh. Beatles drummer Ringo Starr was born at 9 Madryn Street there. His grandparents also lived on that street. When I went there in 2013, street after street was boarded up and black looking, (scary) unlike the friendly days of yesteryear. The streets have since been refurbished, but I've been told by a Liverpudlian that at least one street was left blacked out for this show. Perhaps Wiki The Welsh Streets L8

[@charlesmiller3667]

Hello 👋, and how are you?

[@missedmurphy]

Are you guys ever gonna bring back Timeline??

[@nopeyadayadayada1248]

At 1:30 the Baringham. Haha