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The TV series "Peaky Blinders" shows a huge number of murders and gang warfare in 1920s England. What was the murder rate like? Did it spike after World War I? Were there sophisticated ethnic-based gangs in London or Birmingham at the time?

by /u/CptBuck in /r/AskHistorians

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