The remarkable true story of bare-knuckle boxer Hezekiah Moscow and notorious girl gang The 40 Elephants - The new drama ...

A Thousand Blows has taken Disney+ by storm with viewers eager to learn more about the real-life Forty Elephants gang that ...

Disney+ series A Thousand Blows brings to life real-life characters that walked the dirty East End streets more than 100 ...

The Forty Elephants (pictured), which came about in around the 1870s, was based in the Elephant and Castle area of south ...

The all-female Forty Elephants lived by their own shoplifting and pickpocketing code – now a new series from the creator of ...

While numerous characters in A Thousand Blows are real, the storyline is very loosely based around real events. However, ...

Southwark News noted in 2015 that the gang had a strict Hoister’s Code, which forbade drinking before a job, wearing stolen clothes, or talking to the police. While many gang members’ names ...

A Thousand Blows brings to life real-life characters that walked the dirty East End streets more than 100 years ago.

known as the "hoister's code" – "hoist" being their term for shoplifting. All members of the Elephants were expected to adhere to these rules. According to McDonald, they were written down by a ...