Mary Carr, Forty Elephants and A Thousand Blows

There are moments in this story of pickpocketing and bare-knuckle boxing in the down and dirty East End of late-1800s London ...
A combination of twisting streets, bad sanitation and the city’s poorest residents made for a potent stew – and was the home of the city’s spectacularly violent boxing scene.It’s also this world that ...
Steven Knight's two crime drama shows - Peaky Blinders and A Thousand Blows - could take place in the same universe and form ...
South London's all-female crime gang takes centre stage in Steven Knight's latest period drama - but who were Mary Carr, ...
The upcoming Hulu show portrays real-life gangster Mary Carr and several boxers who dominated in 1880s London.
A Thousand Blows’ tells the story of an all-female crime syndicate, the Forty Elephants, led by a mercurial thief, Mary Carr. The show centers on her exploits in the bowels of London’s East End, where ...
The all-female Forty Elephants lived by their own shoplifting and pickpocketing code – now a new series from the creator of ...