A Thousand Blows — Steven Knight on his Victorian bare-knuckle fighting series
Anyone writing stories set in Victorian London must reckon with its greatest chronicler: Charles Dickens. British screenwriter Steven Knight has been shadowboxing with the novelist for years. In 2019 ...
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Bare knuckles, hard liquor and Victorian hipsters: how ‘A Thousand Blows’ made 19th century London cool
A Thousand Blows centres on Hezekiah Moscow (Malachi Kirby) and Alec Munroe (Francis Lovehall), best friends from Jamaica, who arrive in 1880s London and find themselves thrust into the bare-knuckle ...