Peaky Blinders - The Real Story of Birmingham's Most Notorious GangPaperback book. A fascinating insight into the true story behind Birmingham's most notorious gangs, The Peaky Blinders About the Author Professor Carl Chinn MBE Ph. D. is a social historian with a national profile, writer, public speaker, and teacher. An off course bookmaker himself until 1984, he is the son and grandson of illegal bookmakers in Sparkbrook, and the great grandson of a peaky blinder, whilst his mother's family were factory workers in