Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2018-2019The fact that we are living in a golden age of the TV series cannot be overlooked. Almost one hundred new shows per year are being released and more than three hundred and fifty are still broadcasting. Among them, productions with a historical strand stand out both on
TV and online channels. Peaky Blinders (2013- ) is one of such TV series, which portraits the history of a gangster family in the 1920's. The show is categorised as historical fiction and claims to have based its plot on the real Peaky Blinders gang which was active mainly in Birmingham from the 1890's to 1930.
The aim of this dissertation is a comparative and contrastive analysis between the historical, social and cultural background of the real Peaky Blinders and the reinterpretation of these aspects in the TV show. For this purpose, an introduction to the historical and social background of Birmingham at that time will be included as well as a detailed study of the differences and similarities between the real world of the Peaky Blinders and its adaptation to the screen, which will be illustrated with examples from the series and supported by a comprehensive reading of the most important bibliography on the subject. A second objective will tackle the reasons which led the screenwriter to adapt the history of this gang in one way or another and the issue of how much is real history and how much is fictio
