
Bare knuckles, hard liquor and Victorian hipsters: how ‘A Thousand Blows’ made 19th century London cool
After mythologising Birmingham gang warfare during the 1920s in Peaky Blinders, showrunner Steven Knight has headed south to expose the criminal underbelly of 1880s London in his new Disney+ six-parter A Thousand Blows. ‘Victorian London was the capital of …