Gangs of Victorian Birmingham revealed in new book – Sunday Mercury – Fantastic article about ‘the murky world of youth crime in Victorian Birmingham’.
“While the wider Victorian public basked in the glories of Empire, the great cities of the Industrial Revolution became breeding grounds for violent young gangs of a kind never seen before,” says Philip Gooderson, author of new book The Gangs of Birmingham.
And it seems there were few more violent than The Cheapside Sloggers and The Peaky Blinders – you wouldn’t want to run into these boys on a dark Digbeth night…
