LoLT: The Forty Elephants Girl Gang and Two New Books — 05 May 2023

This is a replay of an episode featuring Dinner Party by Sarah Gilmartin and You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith. Then Dave tells the tale of remarkable women involved in London’s criminal underworld.

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LINKS

Dinner Party by Sarah Gilmartin

You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith

Maggie Smith’s website and Twitter

Legal Design Podcast: Fighting Crime by Design with Lorraine Gamman

Podcast: London: The Tower, Tudors, and a Nice Cuppa Tea

Wikipedia: Shirley Pitts

Wikipedia: Alice Diamond

Gone Shopping: The Story of Shirley Pitts, Queen of Thieves by Lorraine Gamman

The Guardian: Girl Gang’s Grip on London Underworld Revealed

Criminal Secret Society: The Story of Forty Elephants

Video: Diamond Annie and the Forty Elephants — The All-Female Gang That Terrorized London

Abbie Davis with her cover of 'London Town'

Transcript of this episode

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