Brum Undaunted

History

Chinn, Carl

Europe

Birmingham City Council Department of Leisure & Community Services

This is a social history of betting from the 18th century to the present day. It examines the growth of the pursuit as a semi-criminal phenomenon before bookmaking and its gradual evolution into a popular and more or less respectable form of recreation and speculation.

Better Betting With a Decent Feller: Bookmaking, Betting and the British Working Class, 1750-1990

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Harvester/Wheatsheaf

CHINN, C,: THEY WORKED ALL THEIR LIVES, WOMEN OF THE URBAN POOR IN ENGLAND, 1880-1939, MANCHESTER, 1988, xii 187 p, Encuadernacion original, Nuevo,

They Worked All Their Lives: Women of the Urban Poor in England, 1880-1939

Manchester Univ Pr

They Worked All Their Lives: Women of the Urban Poor in England 1880-1939

Poverty Amidst Prosperity: The Urban Poor in England, 1834-1914 (New Frontiers in History)

England was the wealthiest nation in the world in the 19th century, but urban poverty remained widespread and deep. Many observers sought to explain this awful paradox. In their investigations they asked whether the poor were to blame for their position because of their feckless lifestyles, or were they pushed into it by an unfair economic system? This study addresses the issues raised by middle-class outsiders, but in a fresh approach it focuses on the urban poor themselves and explains their way of life from within. Using working-class autobiographies and evidence from working-class people themselves, Carl Chinn shows how people reacted to poverty and brings to the fore their coping strategies. He asserts that the urban poor were not passive victims of their circumstances but that they fought against poverty with the support of neighbours and kin, and that they formed thriving villages in a dreadful environment. This book provides an introduction for students seeking to understand poverty from "below" as well as "above". Its wide range of evidence, clear analysis and strong argument stress the importance of communities and give a voice to those whom traditional history has marginalized.

World

In the backstreets of Birmingham after the First World War, Billy Kimber was a feared fighter with an astute mind and magnetic personality. These attributes earned him the leadership of the Birmingham Gang that dominated the highly profitable protection rackets of the racecourses of England. The members of this gang had once been "sloggers" or "peaky blinders", and their rise to supremacy was attributable to their viciousness and to Kimber's shrewd alliances with other mobs. But they soon incurred the envy of the Sabini Gang of London, who fought violently to oust Kimber and his men and take over their rackets. The Birmingham Gang battled back fiercely in the infamous and bloodstained racecourse wars of the 1920s. These were the real Peaky Blinders, and this is their story.

The Real Peaky Blinders

Biographies & Memoirs

True Crime

Isis Large Print

The Peaky Blinders as we know them, thanks to the hit TV series, are infused with drama and dread. Fashionably dressed, the charismatic but deeply flawed Shelby family blind enemies by slashing them with the disposable safety razor blades stitched in to the peaks of their flat caps, as they fight bloody gangland wars involving Irish terrorists and the authorities led by a devious Home Secretary, Winston Churchill. But who were the real Peaky Blinders? Did they really exist? Well-known social historian, broadcaster and author, Carl Chinn, has spent decades searching them out. Now he reveals the true story of the notorious Peaky Blinders, one of whom was his own great grandfather and, like the Shelbys, his grandfather was an illegal bookmaker in back-street Birmingham. In this gripping social history, Chinn shines a light on the rarely reported struggles of the working class in one of the great cities of the British Empire before the First World War. The story continues after 1918 as some Peaky Blinders transformed into the infamous Birmingham Gang. Led by the real Billy Kimber, they fought a bloody war with the London gangsters Darby Sabini and Alfie Solomon over valuable protection rackets extorting money from bookmakers across the booming postwar racecourses of Britain. Drawing together a remarkably wide-range of original sources, including rarely seen images of real Peaky Blinders and interviews with relatives of the 1920s gangsters, Peaky Blinders: The Real Story adds a new dimension to the true history of Birmingham's underworld and fact behind its fiction.

Peaky Blinders: The Real Story: The real story behind the next generation of British gangsters

John Blake

The follow-up to the incredible Sunday Times bestseller, The Peaky Blinders: The Real Story.

Peaky Blinders: The Legacy: The real story behind the next generation of British gangsters

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Books by Chinn, Carl

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Brum Undaunted

Better Betting With a Decent Feller: Bookmaking, Betting and the British Working Class, 1750-1990

They Worked All Their Lives: Women of the Urban Poor in England, 1880-1939

They Worked All Their Lives: Women of the Urban Poor in England 1880-1939

Poverty Amidst Prosperity: The Urban Poor in England, 1834-1914 (New Frontiers in History)

Poverty Amidst Prosperity: The Urban Poor in England, 1834-1914 (New Frontiers in History)

The Real Peaky Blinders

The Real Peaky Blinders

Peaky Blinders: The Real Story: The real story behind the next generation of British gangsters

Peaky Blinders: The Legacy: The real story behind the next generation of British gangsters