It used to be that books featured a whole bunch of the former but, in recent years, the scales have tipped in the direction of pickpockets ... were central to the way Victorian England worked ...
It follows the exploits of the infamous pickpocket, The Artful Dodger, and Fagin’s gang as they find ingenious ways to survive the grim and exploitative conditions of early Victorian London in ...
According to Burlington lore, this rule was introduced to confound Victorian pickpockets, who would use coded whistles to communicate. Two Burlington Arcade beadles. Image: Matt Brown As most ...
It follows the exploits of the infamous pickpocket, The Artful Dodger, and Fagin’s gang as they find ingenious ways to survive the grim and exploitative conditions of early Victorian London in ...