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The Redemption of Thomas Shelby

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What happens when Peaky Blinders meets Ballet Rambert?

This month Chris finds out about Jessica and Angus’s trip to see Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby, otherwise known as Peaky Blinders: The Ballet. Along the way we discuss the narrative structure of ballet, the industrialisation of the body in wartime and whether we are still living in the era of the First World War.

References

Cabaret (1966)
Metropolis (1927/1984)
Les Miserables (1985)
Abel Gance, J’Accuse (1919)
Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory (1975)
Robert Gerwarth and John Horne (eds.), War in Peace: Paramilitarism in Europe after the Great War, 1917-1923 (2011)

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Jessica Meyer

Professor of Modern British History at Leeds University. My research interests lie at the intersection of the histories of gender, particularly masculinity, medicine and warfare.

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Chris Kempshall

A historian focusing on the First World War and popular representations of warfare. I received my PhD from the University of Sussex in 2013. My thesis examined relations between British and French soldiers during the First World War.

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Angus Wallace

Is a Visiting Research Fellow at Leeds University. My current research focuses on manpower and authority in Britain, starting with the First World War and running through until the end of the Second World War.

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