Peaky Blinders

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

The Kray brothers

The A-Z of British gangs and gangsters

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

19th-century mugshots

The real Peaky Blinders

Aidan Turner as Ross Poldark. The BBC television drama is putting Cornwall’s coastline at risk of

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