How historically accurate is the Netflix show the peaky blinders?

by matbro18

So I just finished watching the peaky blinders on Netflix and was wondering how historically accurate it is to the time era. For those who don't know what it's about it covers a street gang in Birmingham two years after World War One ended and deals with their rise to power and covers social issues cause by the Great War and the rise of Marxism and communism.

pipkin42

I haven't seen the show (well, a friend tried to get me to watch it and I made it about 15 minutes before shutting it off), but I did answer a question about plastic surgery in that era, if you're interested.