Why does a barber’s shop display a striped pole? William Andrews answers that question and many more in this compendium of hirsute history. He covers the old barber’s shop as a place of gossip, the battle over Sunday shaving, the long partnership of barbers and surgeons, bygone beards, taxes on beards, and Pitt’s tax on hair powder.
A curious, entertaining miscellany for anyone who enjoys the odd corners of social history. Download the free EPUB.