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Peaky Blinders

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

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

Who were the real Billy Boys, the Glasgow gang in Peaky Blinders?

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

Gangs and knife-crime fears: how has Britain responded through history?

A real Peaky Blinder mug-shot

In pictures: what did the real Peaky Blinders look like?

Cillian Murphy stars in Peaky Blinders. (Photo by Alamy)

The real Peaky Blinders

The Kray brothers

The A-Z of gangs and gangsters

19th-century mugshots

The real Peaky Blinders

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)

Poldark, Peaky Blinders and 6 other historical TV shows that have tourists flocking to Britain

(BBC/Caryn Mandabach Productions Ltd/Tiger Aspect/Robert Viglasky)

Peaky Blinders: behind the scenes with creator Steven Knight