title: Black History Leaders: A Graphic Novel
author: CW Cooke
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  ## PEAKY BLINDERS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **Professor Carl Chinn,** MBE, PhD, is a social historian, writer, public
  speaker, and teacher. An off-course bookmaker himself until 1984, he is the
  son and grandson of illegal bookmakers in Sparkbrook, whilst his mother’s
  family were factory workers in Aston. His writings are deeply affected by his
  family’s working-class background and life in the back-to-backs of Birmingham,
  and have earned him a national following. He believes passionately that
  history must be democratised because each and every person has made their mark
  upon history and has a story to tell. _Peaky Blinders: The Real Story_ is his
  thirty-third book.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # PEAKY BLINDERS
  
  
  THE REAL STORY
  
  
  **The true history of Birmingham’s most notorious gangs**
  
  
  CARL CHINN
  
  
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  Published by John Blake Publishing,
  
  
  The Plaza,
  
  
  535 Kings Road,
  
  
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