📢 Registration for the 2026 British Crime Historians Symposium is now open! Fantastic range of panels & papers, and non-speakers are very welcome to attend. Join us at OBU this September for two days of all things crime history. Details & registration: sites.google.com/brookes.ac.u... #crimehistory

More #fortyelephants research from me, paired up with a good dollop of social network analysis! doi.org/10.1017/ssh.... #sna #historicalcriminology #AThousandBlows

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

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...

‘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

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