According to Professor Carl Chinn, the name "Peaky Blinders" is popularly said to be derived from the practice of stitching razor blades into the peak of their flat caps which could then be used as weapons.[1] Chinn describes this as an unrealistic scenario and says that a more mundane explanation is that "peakys" was a common nickname for popular flat caps with peaks. In an article, Chinn cites Historian David Cross, of the West Midlands Police Museum in Sparkhill