Herstory of the Month: Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants Young Alice, WikicommonsWell it is the festive season and so I bring you a bit of glitz this month with our aptly named featured Herstory: Alice Diamond.  Like her name, hers is a story of glitz and glamour. But it’s also a story of violence and crime. Because Alice Diamond was a notorious gangster from gritty South London. So if you like your Peaky Blinders, brace yourselves!Alice Black, the angelic child pictured above, was born in Lambeth workhouse illegitimately to Mary Geary and Thomas Diam

This month's Herstory is all about Alice Diamond, the most notorious female mafia boss of 1920's London!
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