Quickcheck: Is the show Peaky Blinders based on a real gang?

Peaky Blinders starring Cillian Murphy will end after Season 6. - handout

THE hit television series Peaky Blinders is making waves at home and abroad with its gritty depiction of organised crime in Birmingham, UK at the turn of the last century.

Is it true that the show is based on an actual gang in Birmingham during the late nineteenth century?