SELECT FURTHER READING

The detailed Endnotes list many books and articles for further reading. This list highlights those that are most pertinent to reading on the peaky blinders and gangs of the 1920s.

Carl Chinn, The Real Peaky Blinders, Billy Kimber, the Birmingham Gang and the Racecourse Wars of the 1920s (Studley 2014).

Andrew Davies, ‘Youth, Violence, and Courtship in Late-Victorian Birmingham: ‘The Case of James Harper and Emily Pimm’, History of the Family, volume 11, issue 2 (2006) pp. 107–20.

Andrew Davies, The Gangs of Manchester. The Story of the Scuttlers Britain’s First Youth Cult (Preston 2008).

Philip Gooderson, The Gangs of Birmingham. From the Sloggers to the Peaky Blinders (Lancashire 2010).

Brian McDonald, Elephant Boys Tales of London and Los Angeles Underworlds (Edinburgh and London, 2000).

Brian McDonald, Gangs of London. 100 Years of Mob Warfare (Wrea Green, 2010).

Heather Shore ‘Criminality and Englishness in the Aftermath: The racecourse wars of the 1920s’, Twentieth Century British History, volume 22, issue 4 (1 December 2011) pp. 474–497.

Heather Shore ‘Rogues of the Racecourse. Racing men and the press in interwar Britain’, Media History, volume 20, issue 4: (Published online: 28 Aug 2014) pp. 352–367.

Heather Shore, London’s Criminal Underworlds, c.1720–c.1930. A Social and Cultural History (Basingstoke 2015).