It was under Alice Diamond, known to others in the crime circuit as ‘Diamond Annie’ due to her love of sparkling rings that ...

Inside the real Forty Elephants from A Thousand Blows. ... Her successor was Alice Diamond, better known as Diamond Annie, who is played by Darcie Shaw in A Thousand Blows.

It was then around 1890 that she was elected as “Queen” of the Forty Elephants, an all-female criminal gang. ... Her successor was Alice Diamond, better known as Diamond Annie, ...

Diamond Annie ran the Forty Elephants. 22. The women raided Selfridge's with hidden pockets in the their skirts and sleeves Credit: Hulton Archive - Getty. 22.

She and other members of the Forty Elephants were arrested, with Diamond serving an 18-month sentence. The gang's operations significantly reduced following her release.

Peter Safran’s The Safran Company and Temple producer Hera Pictures have taken the film and TV rights Alice Diamond & The Forty Elephants.

Not only did the notorious 40 Elephants gang have a name worthy of a great band; the group of tightly-organized smugglers and thieves “had a firm and pitiless grip on London” for nearly 200 years.

Fringe theatre reviews: Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants, and more. By Susan Mansfield, Josephine Balfour-Oatts, Alexander Cohen, Rory Ford. Comment. Published 3rd Aug 2024, 16:31 BST.

A Thousand Blows has arrived and while the period drama was brought to life by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, the Disney+ series is also loosely based on real-life events and people.

The Forty Elephants supposedly started operating their organised crime circuit in the 1880s, when A Thousand Blows was set, although some historians claim the gang was active even as early as the late ...

The Forty Elephants supposedly started operating their organised crime circuit in the 1880s, when A Thousand Blows was set, although some historians claim the gang was active even as early as the late ...