Nylon Pirates

MARK Cardwell Roodhouse

Nylon Pirates

History

Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Featured article

Abstract

In the late 1940s, soaring demand for US nylons helped turn Britain into a smuggler's paradise. Mark Roodhouse describes shop-floor riots, theft on the high seas and stockings' brief heyday at the heart of mafia crime rings.

Original language	English
Pages	34-37
Number of pages	4
Specialist publication	BBC History Magazine
Publication status	Published - Jun 2018

Keywords

organised crime
smuggling
piracy
Tangier
London
New York
Gibraltar
Malta

1 Finished

Black Market Morality:Entitlement and Consumption Controls in Britain 1939 - 1955
Roodhouse, M.
AHRC
1/10/06 → 31/12/06
Project: Research project (funded) › Research

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Nylon Pirates

Abstract

Keywords

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Black Market Morality:Entitlement and Consumption Controls in Britain 1939 - 1955

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