by Andrew Davies · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781903854853
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«The Gangs of Manchester: The Story of the Scuttlers, Britain's First Youth Cult» is Andrew Davies's essay, published by Milo Books in paperback in 2009.
The book reconstructs the phenomenon of the scuttlers, young men from the poorest neighborhoods who for some thirty years spread fear on the streets of Manchester and Salford. It reviews the so-called Rochdale Road War of 1870-1871 and the careers of figures such as the Bellis brothers or John Hillier, known as the king of the scuttlers, until the disappearance of the gangs at the beginning of the 20th century.
The work consists of 398 pages and the text is in English; its original publication dates from May 7, 2009.
It will interest readers of British social history, urban crime and youth subcultures.
Andrew Wynford Davies is a Welsh screenwriter and novelist, best known for his television adaptations of To Serve Them All My Days, House of Cards, Middlemarch, Pride and Prejudice, Bleak House, Mr Selfridge, War & Peace, and Les Misérables, and his original serial A Very Peculiar Practice. He was made a BAFTA Fellow in 2002.
