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Die letzten grauen Tage . . . #hamburg #hafenliebe #stadtpanorama #hamburgfotografiert #visithamburg #meinhamburg #torzurwelt #fromhamburgwithlove #hamburgmeineperle #wehearthamburg #emptystreets #precorona (hier: Hamburg, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLfNW6lMqgD/?igshid=1ppuwwrwv4vkl
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*On a gathering storm comes A tall handsome man In a dusty black coat with A red right hand* The theme song called Red Right Hand by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds links in perfectly because the "tall handsome man whose red right hand is hidden in his coat" is first inspector Campbell and then Hughes as they're both Protestants from Northern Ireland i.e from Ulster, the traditional symbol of which was the red hand and can still be seen on their flag today. Music in general has been a huge deal in Peaky Blinders. The show has included a beautiful lineup of PJ Harvey, Arctic Monkeys, The Black Keys, The White Strips, Radiohead, Royal Blood, Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes and others. The track by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds called Red Right Hand been used in an awful lot of prodctions over the years. It's in the first three movies of the scream franchise and it's also appeared in Dumb and Dumber, Hellboy and the X-Files. You can listen to all the songs that appeared in the show on the Spotify playlist PEAKY BLINDERS by SOUNDTRACKED.US (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/22gmanYjT7U1QdXaBsN8Lx?si=EE7J13GNQRSXY9PV_M-X0A) image source; peaky blinders fandom #peakyblinders #netflix #bbc #stevenknight #shelby #peakyblindersofficial #byorderofthepeakyblinders #redrighthand #nickcaveandthebadseeds #spotify #music #musicintv (hier: Small Heath, Birminham) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDrmNtzldIq/?igshid=ue586afuk5ag
"I am going to fuck the swan tonight." As you all know, Oswald Mosley was a real person and a real fascist leader of the very real British Union of Fascists in 1932 - not 1929 just like in the show. Mosley wasn't a fascist from the beginning of his polítical career (which he started right after WWI): he switched between Conservatives, Independent Party, Labour party and the so called New party before founding the British Union of Fascists. He started without experience and was mainly voted because of his inherited baronetcy. He fell out with the Conservatives over Irish Policy - since he condemned the operations of the Black and Tans in Ireland against civilians. With growing popularity in Birmingham and whole England, he became a household name in fascist's circles. He met Benito Mussolini in 1931, and came back to England as an e en more convinced fascist. Mosley married his mistress Diana Guinness in secret in Germany on 6 October 1936 in the Berlin home of Germany's Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Joseph Goebbels. Adolf Hitler was their guest of honour. The riot played out in the show was inspired by a real fight: The Yiddishers were a London street gang based in Whitechapel and were led by Alfie Solomon (for real). During the 1930s, they opposed the growing fascist movement in Great Britain and participated in an attack on members of the British Union of Fascists, later known as the Battle of Cable Street on 4 October 1936. Mosley had multiple affairs, which is also a little detail revealed in the show. Image source: original authority/peaky blinders fandom . #peakyblinders #shelbybrothers #tommyshelby #oswaldmosley #history #historybehindthescenes #netflix #bbc #gangsofbirmingham https://www.instagram.com/p/CDbzwjGleCQ/?igshid=1fcmnn2mkuf01
"There is God. And there are the peaky blinders." After the Shelby family has dispersed into different directions and Tommy has been feeling rather depressed, the historic stock market crash of 1929 happens. Tommy has to take the reins and do business again. He orders Michael from the headquarters in Detroit back to Birmingham because he ignored Tommys orders and bought shares that brought only deficit. Meanwhile, Tommy’s political career is going from strength to strength; he gives a rousing speech in the House of Commons. Which brings up a new “frenemy”: Oswald Mosley, founder of the fascist party of Great Britain. Tommy has been suspicious that Michael Gray is betraying him. At a family meeting in the Garrison pub, Michael made a speech that the company should be restructured with him at the top. Their drug smuggling expansion in America made his role the most financially beneficial. He told Tommy that dealing with his contacts and Gina Gray’s family who don’t want to deal with a “razor gang”, he wants to expand the business in America. Tommy rejected the plan but Michael said he would pursue it anyway and split from his family. Polly Gray may join him as she handed in her resignation to the gangster. Michael’s new wife Gina soon reveals that she’s pregnant. Alfie Solomons is still alive. Tommy had not shot him dead but had just hurt him badly in the season four finale. Tommy ask for Alfie’s help to use some of his Jewish gangsters in London to cause a commotion at Mosley’s rally in Birmingham. He agrees for a price. Mosley made his speech while protesters from Alfie’s gang broke in to disturb the action. His war comrade Barney Thompson is in place, ready to shoot him dead but before he can he is shot in the head. Then just as Aberama Gold appeared to kill Jimmy McCavern, he was also stabbed to death. Tommy’s plan to kill the MP backfires immensely and now it’s clear that he was betrayed. image source: Imrancat, peaky blinders fandom . #peakyblinders #shelbybrothers #tommyshelby #netflix #bbc #gangsofbirmingham #oswaldmosley #season5 https://www.instagram.com/p/CDZg765l4a3/?igshid=10loabic2brge
In the time since Peaky Blinders began airing the city of Birmingham has seen a significant boost in tourism with a record 14.8 million tourists heading to Birmingham in 2018. Indeed, tourism figures indicate that in several years since the show first aired in 2013 and the end of the fourth season in 2017 the number of people visiting Birmingham had increased by an impressive 26 %. More specifically, international visitor numbers rose by 19 % in the same period the number of people visiting from the US increasing by an incredible 50 %. This also impressed the mayor of West Midlands Andy Street who noted the shows positive implement on the region. But Street added that tours and events related to Peaky Blinders in the West Midlands were selling out months in advance. Figures from the West Midland growth company show that international visitors spent around 17 million pounds last year on Peaky Blinders themed activities ranging from tours of museums to Peaky Blinders pop-up bars. The peaky effect even managed to manifest in the form of a genuine Peaky Blinders festival job - the event which was held in Digbeth, in central Birmingham on the weekend of the 14th and 15th of September 2019 featured a wide array of well-known music acts including Primal Scream, Andy Cowell, Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes and even an appearance from Liam Gallagher. The festival which attracted Peaky Blinders fans from as far away as Los Angeles, Spain and South Africa included a Peaky Blinders Museum, a cast Q&A featuring Sam Neill and Kate Phillips, a Peaky Blinders fashion show, a Roma enclosure with painted caravans and even bare-knuckle fights. It gets better: with the massive success of Peaky Blinders, Steven Knight held meetings with executives from the production giant Paramount about the possibility of constructing a major TV and film studio in Birmingham. The facility would boast six sound stages spread across 40 acres and a cost of around 124 million dollars. Knight has even revealed that he plans on calling the studio “Mercia” after the Anglo Saxon Midlands kingdom of the early medieval period courtesy. image source: Wstnwl/peaky blinders fandom https://www.instagram.com/p/CDJ9siwFR0U/?igshid=rkt0i739hc9t
"Do I look like a man, who wants a simple life?" ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Starting in season three and continuing to the end of season 4 Cillian Murphy acquired a few extra duties on set serving not only as the show's lead actor but also one of the show's executors. Cillian stated that he was very flattered to be asked though in many ways his elevation of position was more of a formality as he'd already been a part of discussions regarding the show’s story: “I was very flattered to be asked. It’s making formal something I’ve already been doing to a degree, talking about the story and the tone.” But what is an executive producer anyway? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The executive producer can be more than just one person and is legally seen as the managing director. They generally contribute to the film's budget and their involvement depends on the project with some simply securing funds and others being involved in the filmmaking process. So, Cillian has to know what exactly happens in the show and in what direction the show develops. Simultaneously, he partly manages the budget and the organisation. And of course, he wants the series to be a success. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Producer of the show, Caryn Mandabach, once stated in an Interview with BUILD series that Peaky Blinders has a very tight budget. She’s very happy about Cillian joining as an Executive Producer: “We, longtime producers like me, take the the role seriously. We don't believe in just giving anybody a credit just because they're married to someone or because so it's someone's manager. Because of the additive value of his intellect and the nature of his participation I felt strongly that it would be helpful to the product if Cillian becomes an executive producer. It would keep the budget quite frank and all things related to the budget choices had to be made exquisitely, we have no room for messing around.” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ images source: Original Authority, lilgroot / peaky blinders fandom #peakyblinders #netflix #bbc #stevenknight #shelby #peakyblindersofficial #byorderofthepeakyblinders #cillianmurphy #carynmandabachproductions #executiveproducers (hier: Cillian Murphy actor) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDHXSkVFRJx/?igshid=13rvaxe2ji7s1
Jessie Eden is a shop steward at the Lucas factory in Sparkhill in 1924. She brings all the female workers in the spot-welding and wire-cutting shops out on strike. They are protesting at poor conditions, lack of holidays, unsanitary lavatory provisions and lower pay for female workers. All the female factory workers in the city join the protest to march on the Bull Ring. Among them, as well, are Polly Gray, Esme Shelby, and Lizzie Stark, at the behest of Linda Shelby. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The show’s creator Steven Knight admitted to the Guardian that he always wanted to “tackle the 1926 general strike as it was a time when the possibility of a genuine revolution was in the air.” Jessie symbolizes this spirit, being female and working class and still a strong and independent character. Talking to the Birmingham Post in 1976 she - the real Jessie Eden - said: “One policeman put his hands on my arms. They were telling me to go home, but the crowd howled … ’Hey, leave her alone’… and some men came and pushed the policemen away. They didn’t do anything after that.” Back in these days Jessie Eden convinced her all-female section of workers at the Joseph Lucas motor components factory in Birmingham to down tools as part of the general strike. She was a British Communist Party member. Women like her used to be called “suffragette”. The term was first used in 1906 as a term of derision by the journalist Charles E. Hands in the London Daily Mail. He described activists in the movement for women's suffrage, in particular members of the British Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). The women he ridiculed embraced the term, saying "suffraGETtes". They wanted the vote and they intended to 'get' it. After the first world war, the Representation of the People Act in 1918 gave the vote to women over the age of 30 who met certain property qualifications. Ten years later, women gained electoral equality with men. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ images sources: Anna9ray, peaky blinders fandom (hier: Birmingham, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDCSIKkl-0E/?igshid=19atghn9mzbis
When alfie is so funny, that the badass Tommy shelby is replaced by a similing Cillian!
Happy or sad? Sad.
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"For them, family is a weakness, and they go after them. For me, family is my strength. And there's business to be done. And I need you."
Even on his wedding day Thomas doesn’t stop thinking about business - and even bringing it to its own big day. He starts business with the Russians that night, not knowing what he is getting himself into. Money is being delivered to him by Duchess Tatiana Petrovna from Mr. Churchill for carrying out a job: he wants Tommy to deliver weapons to Russians for fighting the Bolsheviks. However, those Russians lead by Leon Romanov plan to kill Tommy after the deal.
For purpose of business he gets involved with Father Hughes, who is part of the Economic League. This is a group of people fighting against Britain’s enemies with most violent methods. During season 3 it becomes clear he is reporting to the Crown and trying to break diplomatic relationships with the Communists. Also, he is allegedly a child molestor with no other than Michael Gray being one of his victims while he was away from his mother Polly. He threatens Tommy by telling him he could take his son Charlie anytime.
John offended Angel Changretta, an Italian who was supposed to marry Lizzie Stark, John’s former fiancé. After a death threat, John later beats and cuts Angel and demands he and his fellows stay away from Lizzie. His actions are being supported by Tommy. This was a great mistake, as it turns out during a dinner party of the Shelby Charity Foundation. A man shoots Grace in the chest in revenge for Angel Changretta. Tommy wants revenge: torture Angels father and kill his mother. Despite his orders, Mrs. Changretta is being spared and flees to America.
Polly starts a chain reaction by going to confession and revealing that the Peaky Blinders a planning on killing a man of the church. Father Hughes finds out and later beats up Tommy, leading to internal bleedings and a crashed skull, sending him to hospital for three months. After that, he gets blackmailed by Father Hughes, who kidnapped Charlie.
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“Polly said that I should’ve stuck with the medicine. I said that you know best.”
During the series we encounter a lot of shell shocked men who fought in the first World War. Danny Whizz-Bang, Arthur, Jon or even Tommy Shelby himself. They came back completely destroyed by the war. What they called shell-shocked back then, is nowadays known as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Arthur Shelby has really bad post-traumatic stress disorder and deals with in in a violent way with alcohol and drugs. Not to be ignored, he kills a boy in the boxing ring. Danny was first protraying what veterans could suffer from when they came back: he forgets he's actually in England and he wakes up thinking he's in France and in the trenches. As does Tommy. But he deals with it in a different way. He’s determined to successfully establish his business, whatever it may cost. Also, Tommy suppresses most of his feelings.
They'd come back to England after four years of being away to fighting and they'd be back in the same very poor conditions. In the 1920s, there wasn’t a lot of the social welfare we know today. These things have kicked in later. So, people were incredibly poor and the cities were very overcrowded still even after the reforms in the late 19th century. It's no wonder that quite a few of these gangs would pop up. What do you think of the portrayed PTSD in Peaky Blinders?
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Peaky Blinders is set primarily in the Small Heath area of the city of Birmingham, which is located in the West Midlands of England. For the most part the show isn't actually filmed there. Unsurprisingly, the Small Heath area has changed quite considerably over the last century and no longer looks anything like it did during the period in which Peaky Blinders is set. As a result, much of the series is filmed in other areas of England such as Bradford, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, and London, all of which are crucially not Birmingham.
All the West Midlands Scenes that are represented in Peaky Blinders were shot in the Black Country Living Museum, an open-air museum located in the large market town of Dudley ten miles west of Birmingham. The museum is spread across an area of 26 acres in over 40 carefully reconstructed houses, shops, and industrial areas. In fact, the Black Country Living Museum has become some integral to the filming of the show. Knight once referred to the museum as the home of the Peaky Blinders.
The Garrison pub scenes in the show do actually have a real-life counterpart in the form of a pub in Small Heath which is also called the Garrison. The pub was apparently a frequent haunt of the actual Peaky Blinders but at the time of the show's broadcast had been empty and derelict for years and was not used for filming.
As you can imagine, from the various landscapes of Peaky Blinders, there are also places that don’t look just like that anymore even in London and all those places are listed earlier. In fact, there are so few that for its first season alone 48 different sets were built at a BBC studio in Leeds. That's only got bigger as time went on: by the second series of Peaky Blinders the set number had more than doubled now at a staggering 120.
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“When being just a boy like you, I joined the IRA”
Maguire, member of the Irish Republican Army, sings the song, "The Boys of the Old Brigade" to Thomas before leaving the pub. At the time, Ireland was part of the United Kingdom although there was tension between the Irish Fenians and the United Kingdom. One big misconception is that everyone in Ireland hated the British. On Easter Sunday 1916, there was an uprising in Dublin and other parts of the country where members of the IRA who were fighting for the independence of Ireland, captured various places in Dublin, famously the post office, and declared the Irish nation free from British subjugation. The British took Irish captives, so the uprising was actually a failure. However, the harsh treatment of the Irish meant that the people in Ireland became very anti British. The Irish population became increasingly hostile and it's from that point on that the Irish war of independence starts: from January of 1919 until 1922. The IRA were fighting a guerrilla war against the British, especially against their Black and Tans, a pro-British paramilitary group in Ireland. The officer that Tommy has to shoot was a one of them. They were known for being incredibly ruthless towards the native Irish.
The whole island isn't part of one country, six northern counties remained part of the United Kingdom because the British monarchs planted English Scots and Welsh Protestants in the Northeast to subjugate the various Gallic resistance there. Which is why they were called Ulster and were Pro British and unionist.
In the in the second season of Peaky Blinders this becomes an issue because some of the IRA accepted the treaty that these six counties would go to the UK and some of them didn't. This was actually one of the main causes for the Irish Civil War which was right after the Irish earned their independence. The IRA started fighting among themselves of pro-treaty and anti-treaty.
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"I’ve read very bad, bad, bad, bad things about you Birmingham people."
Alfie Solomons is introduced in season 2 using a bakery as a cover for his distillery. Known for his rivalry with Darby Sabini, Tommy forms an alliance with him which has future consequences. The peaky’s business is running quiet well and Tommy sees potential in expanding it to London which is of course not in the spirit of neither Sabini nor Solomon.
While the business is booming, Polly reaches out for her two children, a girl named Anna and a boy named Michael. After visiting a medium, Tommy helps her to find Michael since Anna has died in Australia of spring fever. A very drunken night at the Garrison Pub later, she finds him in front of her door. Polly finally has her son back in her life.
Tommy tries to enter the world of the aristocrats: His new acquaintance, the rich widow May Carleton, offers to train his new horse „Grace’s Secret“ for the Epsom Derby. They start an affair but later, Thomas confesses to her that he still loves Grace. May is obviously hurt but still tough. She wants to win the race.
Speaking of Grace, she has a rather surprising comeback: after leaving to live in New York and finding a wealthy husband, she shows up at the horse race to tell Tommy that she’s pregnant with his child. He tells Grace that he will meet with her at the end of the day to speak further.
Killing Field Marshal Henry Russell is the diversion that the Peaky Blinders need to hold up Sabini’s bookmakers and burn their licenses while the police are distracted. But at the showdown with Darby Sabini Campbell’s hired men rush in and kidnap Thomas. He faces his execution on a abandoned field. But after Thomas enjoys his final cigarette, one of the three would-be assassins shoots the other two in the head and leaves Thomas lying in a grave.
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