PEAKY BLINDERS would not have worn the infamous razor blade caps as shown in the hit TV show, a historian has revealed. By Josh Saunders 19:19, Sat, Nov 7, 2020 ...

What's On; Arts & Culture; Peaky Blinders; The TRUTH behind Peaky Blinders: no razor blades in caps - but city's real gangsters were brutal Birmingham historian Carl Chinn says the city's gangs of ...

While the BBC series "Peaky Blinders" portrays its tough British street gang in a certain way, the real-life organization was ...

Steven Knight's period crime drama Peaky Blinders takes inspiration from an actual gang from Birmingham, England (going by the same name) that rose to the heights of notoriety during the late 19th cen ...

Replaceable razor blades, however, wasn't manufactured in Britain until 1908, a mere two years before the end of the Peaky Blinders' reign and the point when they began to lose control of their ...

What was the Peaky Blinders series about? The show followed a gangster family in 1900s England. The title comes from their modus operandi of sewing razor blades into the peaks of their caps.

Despite “Peaky Blinders” being centered on a gang in the 1900s with razor blades sewed into their caps, it’s the women – both on and off the screen – who are the sharpest of the bunch.

Mark Baxtrem, 59, standing as an independent candidate for Middlesbrough and Thornaby East, had a razor blade in his Peaky Blinders-style cap which fell to the floor at his count.