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

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Melissa & Dave

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🗓️ 15 March 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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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. This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/StrongSense and get on your way to being your best self. 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 The Library of Lost Time is a Strong Sense of Place Production! https://strongsenseofplace.com Do you enjoy our show? Want access to fun bonus content? Please support our work on Patreon. Every little bit helps us keep the show going and makes us feel warm and fuzzy inside - https://www.patreon.com/strongsenseofplace As always, you can find us at: Our site Instagram Twitter Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	At Accardo, you'll save 25% on your first shop and get free delivery, which means if you were to buy a four cheese pizza, you'd basically be getting one of the cheeses for free.
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0:16.6	New customers only, maximum saving 20 pounds terms at Accardo.com.
0:20.3	Hello, if you're listening to this episode on the day it's released, March 15th, we are
0:25.3	currently in London.
0:26.4	We are, and it's very exciting.
0:36.2	We're seeing live theater and looking at art.
0:39.7	Buying books, we'll read someday, and eating fry-ups and scones.
0:45.1	In Sri Lankan food, we're going to Rambutan. We'll report back on all of that in a few weeks.
0:50.9	Yeah, but today, we're playing an episode of the Library of Lost Time from our
0:55.2	archive. It features a group of women with moxie and glamour. They made their mark on the
1:00.3	criminal underworld in Victorian London. They were probably terrifying then, but it's been
1:05.4	about 150 years since, so we can romanticize them. And if you'd like to take a virtual trip to
1:10.6	London, I'll put a link to our strong sense of
1:12.7	place episode, London, the tower, tutors, and a nice cup of tea in the podcast description.
1:18.8	We'll be back with the new episode next week.
1:20.9	For now, here's a trip to the recent past with the library of lost time.
1:26.3	Coming up, a dinner party where the main course is dysfunctional family.
1:31.9	A memoir from a poet about loss and recovery.
1:35.3	Plus our distraction of the week.
1:37.4	I'm Mel.
1:38.1	I'm Dave.
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