Here's what really happened.

However, the show's writer steven knight created the entire shelby family from scratch and.

Verkkothe show tells the story of a family of gangsters, the shelbys, whose power reigns over a dark, gloomy, poor, and industrialized birmingham of the 1920s.

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Verkkocreated by steven knight, peaky blinders is based on a true story but is heavily fictionalized for dramatic purposes.

Verkkobased on a true story who were the real β€˜peaky blinders’?

Verkkoall about the birmingham gang that inspired the hit tv series.

Verkkoit's no secret that the show's true mvp is cillian murphy as tommy shelby, the head of both the shelby family and the often fearsome peaky blinders.

The shelby family is fictional, but a real street gang operated in birmingham at the turn of the 20th century

Verkkoit's true that the peaky blinders were a real street gang in birmingham.

Verkkothe shelby family themselves are a work of fiction, though the birmingham gang did come to be led by a man featured in the tv series, yet one.

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