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True Crime: Moll Cutpurse - London's Cross-Dressing Criminal

Not Just the Tudors by History Hit

Jun 25, 202647:49Society & Culture

How did one woman scandalise sixteenth century London by refusing to live by its rules? Mary Frith - aka Moll Cutpurse - rejected the expectations of respectable womanhood, wore men’s clothes, smoked a pipe, carried weap...

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True Crime: Moll Cutpurse - London's Cross-Dressing Criminal is an episode from Not Just the Tudors by History Hit. How did one woman scandalise sixteenth century London by refusing to live by its rules? Mary Frith - aka Moll Cutpurse - rej...

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Published Jun 25, 2026, 47:49 long, audio available.