American author Michael Crichton once said: “If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.”
The first season of Peaky Blinders is set in 1919. When we meet gang leader Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy), he’s riding through the unpaved, muddy streets of Birmingham on a horse.
Ahead of the release of Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man on Netflix and in cinemas, genealogy website Ancestry is shining a light on some of the real-life stories behind the cutthroat gangster drama.
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