The Good, The Bad, and the Beardy Part 1

End of Movember Special: Chris talks about the sudden rise of popularity of beards and crisis of masculinity in mid-nineteenth century England using the Village People and some facial hair shaving!

For more information on Movember or to donate:
http://uk.movember.com/

For other cancer charities:

Cancer Research -
http://supportus.cancerresearchuk.org/donate/?gclid=CK7tsN6p7awCFcsmtAodI1YhQA

Macmillan Cancer -
http://www.macmillan.org.uk/Home.aspx

Children With Cancer -
http://www.childrenwithcancer.org.uk/about-us

Teen Cancer Trust -
http://www.teenagecancertrust.org/

Prostate Cancer Foundation -
http://www.pcf.org/site/c.leJRIROrEpH/b.5802031/k.6CE8/Prostate_Cancer_Sympto...

Breast Cancer Care -
http://www.breastcancercare.org.uk/

(As well as many others)

The NHS homepage has lots of information on ways to check for cancer - http://www.nhs.uk/Pages/HomePage.aspx

A large amount of the material from this presentation was drawn from:

'The Beard Movement in Victorian Britain' by Christopher Oldstone-Moore in Victorian Studies (Volume 48)

'From Squalid Impropriety to Manly Respectability: The Revival of Beards, Moustaches and Martial Values in the 1850s in England' by Susan Walton in Nineteenth-Century Contexts (Volume 30)

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Movember
• Beards
• Moustaches
• History
• Village People
• Macho Man
• Masculinity
• Hank Green
• Swindon Town Swoodilypoopers
• Joe Jonas
• Jonas Brothers
• Justin Bieber

[coldstonemoore]

Chris, good job on this. I loved the graphics.