Lessons from Tommy Shelby: The Peaky Blinder from Birmingham
4 min readOct 17, 2021
“Don’t expect what you give... Not everyone has a heart like you”
— Tommy Shelby
Tommy Shelby returned to Britain in 1919 as a War Hero from the First World War and was honoured for his bravery at the Battle of Verdun and the Battle of Somme. However, there was more to the war than laureates for Tommy — it changed his life forever with…