‘there are so many fabulous female con-artists!’

Female thieves took to drugging men’s drinks with opiates before cleaning out their victims’ pockets On 2 January 1865, Elizabeth Bagwell (alias Elizabeth Manning) was convicted at the Middlesex Sessi

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The Gold is back. The BBC hit the jackpot with Neil Forsyth’s drama about the Brinks-Mat robbery and the fallout from one of the most infamous crimes of the last century. Here was a sharply written an

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