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Aunt Katie's Confession: The Untold Story of Women Gang Members in 1930s Glasgow | Female Gangsters

In 2008, Scottish comedian Janey Godley visited her friend’s elderly Aunt Katie in Glasgow. During a chat about the old days in Norman Street, Katie calmly revealed she had been a Norman Conk gang member who threw petrol bombs at the Billy Boys and once hurled a hammer at a man who had beaten a priest when she was just 15. Katie was not unique. She belonged to a forgotten chapter of Glasgow’s gang history where women were not just bystanders but active gangsters. They fought in street battles, threw petrol bombs and bricks, slashed rivals with razors, and helped run criminal operations that terrorized whole neighborhoods. This documentary uncovers the hidden role of these women during the razor gang wars of the 1920s and 1930s. It follows the women who stood alongside the Billy Boys, Norman Conks, and other gangs, the female crews who organized protection rackets, shoplifting rings, and blackmail schemes, and the systemic erasure that buried their stories for decades. Using historian Andrew Davies’ research, court records, witness statements, and family oral histories, this film exposes how women wielded straight razors, collected protection money, lied under oath to shield male gang members, and in some cases led their own feared operations. It also shows how Victorian ideas about femininity allowed their violence to be minimized by courts, journalists, and later historians. Discover Glasgow’s forgotten female gangsters – the women who threw petrol bombs at the Billy Boys, enforced protection rackets in Bridgeton, and proved that gang culture was never just a man’s world. This is the untold, violent legacy that still haunts Glasgow today. SOURCES USED: 1. Glasgow: City of Gangs - A new history by Andrew Davies https://glasgowgangs.com 2. Gangsters and Girl Gangs | Glasgow https://glasgowgangs.com/gangsters-2/ 3. Glasgow razor gangs - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow... 4. Norman Conks - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_... 5. Glasgow Gangs - Crime and Investigation https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.... 6. The Key Figures - Crime and Investigation https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.... 7. Chicago style gangs ruled over 1930s Glasgow - University of Liverpool https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/2013/08/... 8. Inside the all-female gang led by Diamond Annie armed with guns - The Sun https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9779353... 9. The Story of the Women Surrounding the Peaky Blinders https://toptoursglobal.com/blog/molls... 10. Andrew Davies, City of Gangs: Glasgow and the Rise of the British Gangster - Edinburgh University Press https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.... DISCLAIMER: This video is intended for educational and historical purposes only. It examines real events from Glasgow's criminal history during the 1920s and 1930s, with specific focus on the largely undocumented role of women in gang culture. The content discusses violence, gang warfare, and organized crime as part of documented historical events. All information presented is based on historical research by academic historians including Professor Andrew Davies, publicly available court records, witness statements, oral histories, and period documentation. This video does not glorify or encourage criminal activity, gang violence, or gender-based violence. The female gangsters documented in this video were responsible for significant harm to their communities. This video aims to correct historical erasure and provide a complete picture of Glasgow's gang culture. Viewer discretion is advised. #FemaleGangsters #GlasgowGangsters #WomenInCrime #KellyGang #NormanConks #BillyBoys #RazorGangs #ScottishCrime #TrueCrimeDocumentary #GlasgowUnderworld #1930sGlasgow #WomenGangs #FemaleViolence #GlasgowHistory #ScottishGangsters #TrueCrimeStories #UKGangsters #GangWarfare #HistoricalCrime #ForgottenHistory #WomenCriminals #GlasgowCrime #BritishGangsters #VintageGangs #CrimeHistory