The Redemption of Thomas Shelby

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)

Rambert Dance in Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby Rehearsal Video

New dance theatre version of Peaky Blinders by creator Steven Knight

Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight interview on Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby

‘Peaky Blinders’ writer Steven Knight on the cult of the show and season 6

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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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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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A Postgraduate Researcher at Leeds University. My current research explores all the men who appeared before the North Riding Military Appeal Tribunal, 1916-18.