Playboys and Mayfair Men: Crime, Class, Masculinity, and Fascism in 1930s London, by Angus McLaren

Clive Bloom enjoys a sociological study of why a group of rich layabouts became crooks – and how society dealt with them

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November 23, 2017
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November 23, 2017
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Robert Paul Harley and friends
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High rollers: Robert Paul Harley, one of the ‘Mayfair Men’ group of upper-class criminals, dining out with friends c.1935

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