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Barbers & the Price of Shaving.", "url": "https://dralun.wordpress.com/2021/04/27/how-much-barbers-the-price-of-shaving/", "published_at": "2021-04-27T07:17:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c509-1475-7126-8cf6-f55ca43794b3", "title": "Barbers and (the lack of!) 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"2016-06-14T09:30:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c543-5168-72fd-803d-b320dce37e10", "title": "Beards…or no Beards?", "url": "https://dralun.wordpress.com/2016/06/01/beards-or-no-beards/", "published_at": "2016-06-01T14:19:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-2491-72bd-8c7d-b321db24e584", "title": "Pig boys and boar bites: a seventeenth-century medical consultation", "url": "https://dralun.wordpress.com/2016/05/27/pig-boys-and-boar-bites-a-seventeenth-century-medical-consultation-2/", "published_at": "2016-05-27T09:30:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-2491-72bd-8c7d-b321dbaad3cb", "title": "Inside a seventeenth-century Welsh barber-surgeon’s shop.", "url": "https://dralun.wordpress.com/2016/05/20/inside-a-seventeenth-century-welsh-barber-surgeons-shop-2/", "published_at": "2016-05-20T09:20:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-2491-72bd-8c7d-b321dc1ea95c", "title": "Splash it all over: A brief history of aftershave.", "url": "https://dralun.wordpress.com/2016/05/17/splash-it-all-over-a-brief-history-of-aftershave/", "published_at": "2016-05-17T08:53:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-2491-72bd-8c7d-b321dd06e763", "title": "‘Weird’ remedies and the problem of ‘folklore’", "url": "https://dralun.wordpress.com/2016/05/07/weird-remedies-and-the-problem-of-folklore-2/", "published_at": "2016-05-07T07:03:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-2491-72bd-8c7d-b321dd6d26f6", "title": "“By the King’s Special Grant”: A Venetian Quack in Early Modern Britain", "url": "https://dralun.wordpress.com/2016/04/29/by-the-kings-special-grant-a-venetian-quack-in-early-modern-britain-2/", "published_at": "2016-04-29T07:09:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-2491-72bd-8c7d-b321dd97b7f3", "title": "Shaving in the Trenches: Washing and grooming in the Great War.", "url": "https://dralun.wordpress.com/2016/04/25/shaving-in-the-trenches-washing-and-grooming-in-the-great-war-2/", "published_at": "2016-04-25T08:04:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-2491-72bd-8c7d-b321de0fb7c6", "title": "The Lost Children’s Drawings in a 19th-Century Medical Manuscript.", "url": "https://dralun.wordpress.com/2016/04/14/the-lost-childrens-drawings-in-a-19th-century-medical-manuscript/", "published_at": "2016-04-14T12:06:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-2491-72bd-8c7d-b321debe7257", "title": "100k Blog Views – Thank You!", "url": "https://dralun.wordpress.com/2016/03/23/100k-blog-views-thank-you/", "published_at": "2016-03-23T10:09:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-2491-72bd-8c7d-b321df674dce", "title": "Touching the Past: Why History Is Important?", "url": "https://dralun.wordpress.com/2016/03/17/touching-the-past-why-history-is-important/", "published_at": "2016-03-17T08:46:33+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-2491-72bd-8c7d-b321df7065f1", "title": "Robbing the Doctor: 17th-Century Medics as Victims of Crime", "url": "https://dralun.wordpress.com/2016/02/12/robbing-the-doctor-17th-century-medics-as-victims-of-crime/", "published_at": "2016-02-12T09:03:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-8a8f-7389-873a-368106bc9cc5", "title": "Technology, Self-Fashioning and Politeness in Eighteenth-Century Britain", "url": "https://dralun.wordpress.com/2016/01/27/technology-self-fashioning-and-politeness-in-eighteenth-century-britain/", "published_at": "2016-01-27T09:19:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-8a8f-7389-873a-36810744787b", "title": "Declining Beards?! Right of Reply.", "url": "https://dralun.wordpress.com/2016/01/19/declining-beards-right-of-reply/", "published_at": "2016-01-19T09:39:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-8a8f-7389-873a-368107a7f95e", "title": "Detoxing in History: the morning after the night before!", "url": "https://dralun.wordpress.com/2016/01/04/detoxing-in-history-the-morning-after-the-night-before-2/", "published_at": "2016-01-04T09:56:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-8a8f-7389-873a-3681082e1d0e", "title": "2015 in review", "url": "https://dralun.wordpress.com/2015/12/30/2015-in-review/", "published_at": "2015-12-30T07:43:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-8a8f-7389-873a-368108a7a602", "title": "Beards, Masculinity and History.", "url": "https://dralun.wordpress.com/2015/12/23/beards-masculinity-and-history/", "published_at": "2015-12-23T08:33:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-8a8f-7389-873a-36810949b18f", "title": "Steel and the body in the Enlightenment:", "url": "https://dralun.wordpress.com/2015/12/11/steel-and-the-body-in-the-enlightenment-2/", "published_at": "2015-12-11T09:37:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-8a8f-7389-873a-36810a152440", "title": "Can’t Stay Moustache: Bans on Facial Hair in Medieval Ireland", "url": "https://dralun.wordpress.com/2015/12/07/cant-stay-moustache-bans-on-facial-hair-in-medieval-ireland/", "published_at": "2015-12-07T10:21:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-8a8f-7389-873a-36810a29be65", "title": "Healthy Beards? A ‘Decembeard’ Special!", "url": "https://dralun.wordpress.com/2015/12/01/healthy-beards-a-decembeard-special/", "published_at": "2015-12-01T14:17:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-8a8f-7389-873a-36810a4ba85c", "title": "BBC Free Thinking Feature: Bamburgh Castle Surgery, c. 1770-1800", "url": "https://dralun.wordpress.com/2015/11/02/bbc-free-thinking-feature-bamburgh-castle-surgery-c-1770-1800/", "published_at": "2015-11-02T09:24:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-8a8f-7389-873a-36810a68c1e9", "title": "Framing the Face: New Perspectives on the History of Facial Hair – Registration Now Open!", "url": "https://dralun.wordpress.com/2015/10/07/framing-the-face-new-perspectives-on-the-history-of-facial-hair-registration-now-open/", "published_at": "2015-10-07T16:18:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55c-e5b0-73bc-91cf-45ec147d4de1", "title": "Thursday 15th October, 7pm, Wellcome Collection London – ‘The Thing Is…Beards’!", "url": "https://dralun.wordpress.com/2015/09/28/thursday-15th-october-7pm-wellcome-collection-london-the-thing-is-beards/", "published_at": "2015-09-28T07:46:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55c-e5b0-73bc-91cf-45ec14a7eb4e", "title": "Launching the ‘Beards Project’!", "url": "https://dralun.wordpress.com/2015/09/16/launching-the-beards-project/", "published_at": "2015-09-16T08:01:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55c-e5b0-73bc-91cf-45ec14e670d0", "title": "Medicine in a Vacuum – Practitioners in Early Modern Wales", "url": "https://dralun.wordpress.com/2015/09/14/medicine-in-a-vacuum-practitioners-in-early-modern-wales/", "published_at": "2015-09-14T08:47:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55c-e5b0-73bc-91cf-45ec1578cc4a", "title": "Religion & the Sickness Experience in Early Modern Britain.", "url": "https://dralun.wordpress.com/2015/07/02/religion-the-sickness-experience-in-early-modern-britain/", "published_at": "2015-07-02T09:08:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55c-e5b0-73bc-91cf-45ec15ece4fa", "title": "Unhealthy Beards? Denouncing Facial Hair in History", "url": "https://dralun.wordpress.com/2015/05/11/unhealthy-beards-denouncing-facial-hair-in-history/", "published_at": "2015-05-11T08:43:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55c-e5b0-73bc-91cf-45ec16585712", "title": "Edging the Competition: Surgical Instruments in the 18th-Century", "url": "https://dralun.wordpress.com/2015/04/17/edging-the-competition-surgical-instruments-in-the-18th-century/", "published_at": "2015-04-17T09:12:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55c-e5b0-73bc-91cf-45ec1710ee33", "title": "Brand new for BBC Arts: The Barbershop in the 18th century – presented by Dr Alun Withey", "url": "https://dralun.wordpress.com/2015/04/01/brand-new-for-bbc-arts-the-barbershop-in-the-18th-century-presented-by-dr-alun-withey/", "published_at": "2015-04-01T08:39:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55c-e5b0-73bc-91cf-45ec1749cf2c", "title": "Crooked or Straight: Creating the ideal posture in 18th-century Britain", "url": "https://dralun.wordpress.com/2015/03/16/crooked-or-straight-creating-the-ideal-posture-in-18th-century-britain/", "published_at": "2015-03-16T12:09:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55c-e5b0-73bc-91cf-45ec17d0e87a", "title": "Zounds how you scrape! Being shaved in Georgian Britain.", "url": "https://dralun.wordpress.com/2015/03/01/zounds-how-you-scrape-being-shaved-in-georgian-britain/", "published_at": "2015-03-01T19:39:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55c-e5b0-73bc-91cf-45ec18101b5e", "title": "Fart catchers and Duck F***ers! The world of 18th-century slang", "url": "https://dralun.wordpress.com/2015/01/23/fart-catchers-and-duck-fers-the-world-of-18th-century-slang/", "published_at": "2015-01-23T09:37:54+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

‘Smock-Faced’ and ‘Imperbicke: The Shame of Beardlessness’original ↗
28 Aug 2026

2025

Jolted and Jumbled: Riding in a Sedan Chair in the 18th Centuryoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2025
To Tip or Not To Tip: A Victorian Traveller’s Perspectiveoriginal ↗
6 Jan 2025

2024

News Just In: Dr W Joins TikTok – @dralunwitheyoriginal ↗
12 Dec 2024
Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.original ↗
1 Nov 2024
Should I Stay or Should I go?: Encouraging travel in the early modern period.original ↗
11 Jun 2024
The Troublesome Gibbet of John Haines, the ‘Wounded Highwayman’ of Hounslow.original ↗
16 Feb 2024
Creams, Clothes and Cases: The material culture of pre-modern travel.original ↗
1 Feb 2024

2023

Medicine on the Move: Early Modern Travel and Remediesoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2023
The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britainoriginal ↗
17 Feb 2023

2022

Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.original ↗
8 Jun 2022
Are Beards Over? A Historical Perspective.original ↗
25 Apr 2022

2021

Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Centuryoriginal ↗
10 Nov 2021
Cuts, Rashes & Chatter! The Pain of the 18th-century Shave!original ↗
21 May 2021
How Much?! Barbers & the Price of Shaving.original ↗
27 Apr 2021
Barbers and (the lack of!) Polite Advertisingoriginal ↗
1 Apr 2021
The ‘Celebrated Inventions’ of Alexander Ross.original ↗
19 Mar 2021
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Centuryoriginal ↗
12 Mar 2021
Beard Fashions and Classoriginal ↗
24 Feb 2021
Book Launch day! Introducing ‘Concerning Beards’.original ↗
11 Feb 2021
To Dye for! Colouring the Beard in the 19th Century.original ↗
5 Feb 2021
‘Capital Deceptions’: Science and Magic in the 18th Centuryoriginal ↗
22 Jan 2021
‘Invalids Wanted’: Residential care in the 19th century.original ↗
15 Jan 2021

2020

The Quirky World of Victorian Shaving Patents!original ↗
7 Jul 2020
Travel and Quarantine in the 19th Centuryoriginal ↗
29 May 2020
The ‘Toilet Arts’: Men’s Personal Grooming and Advice Literature in the 19th Century.original ↗
15 Apr 2020
Barbers and Shaving in the Eighteenth Centuryoriginal ↗
8 Apr 2020
How to Avoid Illness – Victorian Styleoriginal ↗
30 Mar 2020
Beard Sculpting in the 19th Century.original ↗
18 Mar 2020
A Hidden History of Beard Terms!original ↗
14 Feb 2020

2019

Halloween Special: Shaving the Dead in Irish Folkloreoriginal ↗
31 Oct 2019
The Singular Case of the Tiverton Barberoriginal ↗
15 Oct 2019
The Barber and the Abusive Parrot!original ↗
12 Jun 2019
Uncovered: The First ever Beard and Moustache Competition?!original ↗
21 May 2019
Bitesized Blog Post #1 Automata & ‘The Turk!’original ↗
13 Mar 2019
Unnatural Fashions: Wigs and Beards in the 18th Century.original ↗
10 Jan 2019
The Evans Brothers and the ‘Cardigan Cancer Cure’.original ↗
3 Jan 2019

2018

Banning the Beard.original ↗
10 Oct 2018
Barbers and their Shops in Early Modern Britain.original ↗
20 Sept 2018
Hiding Behind the Beard. Facial hair and Physiognomy.original ↗
8 Jun 2018
The ‘heroic sufferer’; sickness narratives in early modern lettersoriginal ↗
21 May 2018
Splash it all over: A brief history of aftershave.original ↗
16 Mar 2018
Barbers and Advertising in the 18th century.original ↗
9 Mar 2018
The killer socks of 1868.original ↗
11 Jan 2018

2017

When Marmalade was Medicinal.original ↗
22 Nov 2017
The ‘Gimcrack whim collector’: Don Saltero’s Coffee House and Museumoriginal ↗
10 Oct 2017
Overcrowded and Underfunded: 18th-Century Hospitals and the NHS Crisisoriginal ↗
6 Oct 2017
The Great Georgian Snuff Debateoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2017
Thomas Ribright: The Electrifying Optician of 18th-century London.original ↗
1 Aug 2017
What About Whiskers? The forgotten facial hair fashion of 19th-century Britain.original ↗
21 Jun 2017
How Welsh medicine helped to create America!original ↗
29 May 2017
The Case of the Severed Finger: Callow vs Heane, 1634original ↗
8 May 2017
18th-Century Barbers at the Old Bailey.original ↗
28 Apr 2017
The Hand of History: Hands, fingers and nails in the eighteenth centuryoriginal ↗
12 Apr 2017
Barbers and Shaving in early modern Britain.original ↗
3 Apr 2017
Birthday Celebration!original ↗
21 Mar 2017
‘He is gone from his service before his time’: Medical Apprenticeships in Early Modern Britainoriginal ↗
21 Mar 2017
Sit up Straight! Bad posture and the ‘Neck Swing’ in the 18th century.original ↗
14 Feb 2017
Warehouses and Shopping in Georgian Englandoriginal ↗
8 Feb 2017
Sick Servants in Early Modern Britainoriginal ↗
11 Jan 2017

2016

Movember Special: Hiding Behind the Beardoriginal ↗
1 Nov 2016
Announcing…’The Age of the Beard”original ↗
5 Oct 2016
Beards…or no Beards?original ↗
3 Sept 2016
Concocting Recipes: The early modern medical home.original ↗
25 Aug 2016
‘Gymnasticks’ and Dumbbells: Exercise in early modern Britainoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2016
What is a ‘remedy collection’?: Recording medical information in the 17th centuryoriginal ↗
15 Aug 2016
10 Seventeenth-century remedies you’d probably want to avoid!original ↗
12 Jul 2016
Fowl Medicine: The early modern ‘pigeon cure’original ↗
30 Jun 2016
Nendick’s Pill: Selling Medicine in Rural Britainoriginal ↗
14 Jun 2016
Beards…or no Beards?original ↗
1 Jun 2016
Pig boys and boar bites: a seventeenth-century medical consultationoriginal ↗
27 May 2016
Inside a seventeenth-century Welsh barber-surgeon’s shop.original ↗
20 May 2016
Splash it all over: A brief history of aftershave.original ↗
17 May 2016
‘Weird’ remedies and the problem of ‘folklore’original ↗
7 May 2016
“By the King’s Special Grant”: A Venetian Quack in Early Modern Britainoriginal ↗
29 Apr 2016
Shaving in the Trenches: Washing and grooming in the Great War.original ↗
25 Apr 2016
The Lost Children’s Drawings in a 19th-Century Medical Manuscript.original ↗
14 Apr 2016
100k Blog Views – Thank You!original ↗
23 Mar 2016
Touching the Past: Why History Is Important?original ↗
17 Mar 2016
Robbing the Doctor: 17th-Century Medics as Victims of Crimeoriginal ↗
12 Feb 2016
Technology, Self-Fashioning and Politeness in Eighteenth-Century Britainoriginal ↗
27 Jan 2016
Declining Beards?! Right of Reply.original ↗
19 Jan 2016
Detoxing in History: the morning after the night before!original ↗
4 Jan 2016

2015

2015 in revieworiginal ↗
30 Dec 2015
Beards, Masculinity and History.original ↗
23 Dec 2015
Steel and the body in the Enlightenment:original ↗
11 Dec 2015
Can’t Stay Moustache: Bans on Facial Hair in Medieval Irelandoriginal ↗
7 Dec 2015
Healthy Beards? A ‘Decembeard’ Special!original ↗
1 Dec 2015
BBC Free Thinking Feature: Bamburgh Castle Surgery, c. 1770-1800original ↗
2 Nov 2015
Framing the Face: New Perspectives on the History of Facial Hair – Registration Now Open!original ↗
7 Oct 2015
Thursday 15th October, 7pm, Wellcome Collection London – ‘The Thing Is…Beards’!original ↗
28 Sept 2015
Launching the ‘Beards Project’!original ↗
16 Sept 2015
Medicine in a Vacuum – Practitioners in Early Modern Walesoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2015
Religion & the Sickness Experience in Early Modern Britain.original ↗
2 Jul 2015
Unhealthy Beards? Denouncing Facial Hair in Historyoriginal ↗
11 May 2015
Edging the Competition: Surgical Instruments in the 18th-Centuryoriginal ↗
17 Apr 2015
Brand new for BBC Arts: The Barbershop in the 18th century – presented by Dr Alun Witheyoriginal ↗
1 Apr 2015
Crooked or Straight: Creating the ideal posture in 18th-century Britainoriginal ↗
16 Mar 2015
Zounds how you scrape! Being shaved in Georgian Britain.original ↗
1 Mar 2015
Fart catchers and Duck F***ers! The world of 18th-century slangoriginal ↗
23 Jan 2015
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