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The cruel exploits of the real-life gangsters that plagued the backstreets of Birmingham have been brought to life in the BBC show Peaky Blinders. But the crime drama, which is based on true events told to creator Steven Knight, was said to barely scratch the surface of their escapades, historian Professor Carl Chinn argued. He told Express.co.uk about the “vicious, violent and brutal” thugs who used “knives, belt-buckles, brick-ends and more” to attack foes and “the working-class poor they lived among”.