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Who Did What Now

37 - Forty Elephants - The 19th Century Women-Only London crime syndicate

Who Did What Now

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4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This week, join Katie as she runs headfirst into what was the history of England's oldest running crime syndicate! This group of girl gangsters were highly skilled hoisters, the Forty Elephants ruled London's streets in the 19th & 20th centuries,...

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0:00.0

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0:54.0

Hi everybody and welcome to Who did what Now, the history podcast that's not your history class.

0:59.7

With me, your host, Katie Charlottwood.

1:05.5

And your co-hosts, history, fans.

1:11.7

And readers of books. Yeah. Yeah. History. Vines. And readers of books.

1:13.7

Yeah.

1:14.4

Yeah.

1:15.1

So, Baby and I, we have been so busy.

1:19.9

And someone has been very excited about this week's episode and demanded to be my co-host for it.

1:27.8

Yeah. Yeah.

1:29.0

So what are we going to talk about today?

1:31.9

40 elephants.

1:34.1

40 elephants who are an all-girl, gang, crime syndicate in London.

1:41.7

It is fantastic because we support women's rights but more importantly we

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