The Forty Elephants deployed creative means of stealing money, clothes, jewels, and anything else of value, as detailed in author and journalist Brian McDonald's book Alice Diamond and the Forty ...

The Forty Elephants often seem larger than life in A Thousand Blows, and many viewers may be surprised that an all-female gang could have such success in Victorian London.Surprising as it is ...

It was then around 1890 that she was elected as “Queen” of the Forty Elephants, an all-female criminal gang. The organisation was given this name as they operated from Elephant and Castle.

The all-female Forty Elephants lived by their own shoplifting and pickpocketing code – now a new series from the creator of Peaky Blinders tells the true story of the gang.

Who were the Forty Elephants? Born in Holborn in 1862, Mary Carr had a challenging start in life. By the age of 14, her mother had passed away and her father, a thief and fraudster, was either in ...

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The Forty Elephants were an offshoot of the male Elephant Gang, which had formed in the 1780s. The women were often related to male gang members, but by the 1890s, they were operating independently.

Inside the real Forty Elephants from A Thousand Blows Born in 1862 in Holborn, Mary Carr had a difficult start in life as her mum had died by the time she was 14 and her thief and fraudster dad ...

About how long “A Thousand Blows” could last, Knight said, “The strange truth is that there was still a Forty Elephants gang in London in the 1950s. That’s just extraordinary that they ...

A Thousand Blows is coming to Disney Plus next month and RadioTimes.com has an exclusive first look at the show's Forty Elephants, led by Erin Doherty's Mary Carr. In history, the Forty Elephants ...

The Forty Elephants’ last big year was 1939, before the country was plunged into war. There were some flurries of activity later, but the phenomenon had largely faded after the death of Alice ...