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Dr. Grace Di Méo

@gracedimeo.bsky.social

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University Lecturer in Criminology | PhD History | Cat Mumma & Pianist

Dr. Grace Di Méo @gracedimeo.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

📢 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

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Dr. Grace Di Méo @gracedimeo.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

'Prowling' feels like a suitable word! :D

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Dr. Grace Di Méo @gracedimeo.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

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

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Women, Gangs, and Criminal Networks: A Social Network Analysis of the Forty Elephants Gang | Social Science History | Cambridge Core

Women, Gangs, and Criminal Networks: A Social Network Analysis of the Forty Elephants Gang

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Dr Caitlin Burge @caitlinburge.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

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

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Dr. Grace Di Méo @gracedimeo.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

📣 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

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Dr. Grace Di Méo @gracedimeo.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

So lovely to see this moment being remembered. Also makes me miss my home city!

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Dr. Grace Di Méo @gracedimeo.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

YEP! The Forty Elephants weren't even a gang in the Victorian period...!

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Dr. Grace Di Méo @gracedimeo.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Thank you!

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Dr. Grace Di Méo @gracedimeo.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Yeah, Alice Diamond appears late 1910s, much beyond Mary Carr. I guess another issue is that 'Forty Thieves' was a common name for gangs back then because of the popularity of Ali Baba...but historic newspapers always conflate these things to make our brains hurt!

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Dr. Grace Di Méo @gracedimeo.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Absolutely, would love to! 😍

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Dr. Grace Di Méo @gracedimeo.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Yep, getting frustrated by seeing the gang called 'Forty Elephants' when they were actually the 'Forty Thieves', so thank you for raising!

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Dr. Grace Di Méo @gracedimeo.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

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...

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‘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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