Friday morning call for abstracts!

We're looking for chapters for our historical network analysis edited collection, under contract with Bloomsbury Academic. See the cfp for more! Email us at interlocked.universe@gmail.com #dh #digitalhumanities #networkanalysis

📣 Are you a researcher working on a historical network analysis project? @caitlinburge.bsky.social and I are looking for abstracts for an edited collection under contract with Bloomsbury. See details below. 📅 Deadline: 6th February 2026. #historicalnetworks #digitalhistory #dh #CFP

So lovely to see this moment being remembered. Also makes me miss my home city!

YEP! The Forty Elephants weren't even a gang in the Victorian period...!

Thank you!

Yeah, Alice Diamond appears late 1910s, much beyond Mary Carr. I guess another issue is that 'Forty Thieves' was a common name for gangs back then because of the popularity of Ali Baba...but historic newspapers always conflate these things to make our brains hurt!

Absolutely, would love to! 😍

Yep, getting frustrated by seeing the gang called 'Forty Elephants' when they were actually the 'Forty Thieves', so thank you for raising!

‘An amazing gang of women crooks and blackmailers’: women, organized crime, and the ‘Forty Elephants’ gang in inter-war Britain Abstract. Women’s participation in organized crime has been overlooked within historical research, with studies typically relegating their roles to that of

First post here! Sharing my latest article on the all-female 'Forty Elephants' gang (maybe of interest if you've been reading about the new #AThousandBlows show?) - read me for tales of women bandits, getaway driving and West End shoplifting! #historians #criminology #gangs doi.org/10.1093/tcbh...