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

They're the Forty Elephants, a real gang led by the charismatic Mary Carr (Erin Doherty), who pilfer the prized possessions ...

Steven Knight is bringing a new Victorian street gang to the small screen in the form of A Thousand Blows, an upcoming six-part series about the criminal underbelly of the East End of London's ...

Knight says he had always wanted to tell Moscow’s story parallel with that of the Forty Elephants, an infamous gang of Victorian women led by Carr which stole from glitzy stores like Harrods and ...

First documented in 1873, though possibly dating back to the 18th century, the gang took their name from their base in Elephant and Castle, South London. As historian Brian McDonald detailed in ...

From crime and punishment to key inventions, Dodger and the gang provide an entertaining and informative introduction to life in Victorian Britain. Dodger is a new ten-part family adventure set ...

The Victorian Allan Labor government will move to outlaw machetes in an Australian-first ban as it continues to crack down on ...

It follows the exploits of the infamous pickpocket, The Artful Dodger, and Fagin’s gang as they find ingenious ways to survive the grim and exploitative conditions of early Victorian London in ...

Now a new Disney+ series from the creator of Peaky Blinders tells the wild true story of the gang and its "queen", Mary Carr. An organised crime gang operating in a capital city is hardly unusual.

Steven Knight’s latest drama series spotlights Hezekiah Moscow, who was indeed a real-life bare-knuckle boxer who journeyed from the Caribbean to London in the late Victorian era.