21 people were killed and 182 were injured in a series of bomb attacks in 1974 , thought to be carried out by the Provisional IRA . The bombings were the worst terror attacks in England up until the 2005 London bombings and consisted of bombs being planted in two pubs in Central Birmingham . Six men were convicted , who became known later as the Birmingham Six and sentenced to life imprisonment , who were acquitted after 16 years by the Court of Appeal . The convictions are now considered one of the worst British miscarriages of justice in recent times . The true perpetrators of the attacks are yet to be arrested
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