You might think that beards are popular now, but the mid-19th century was a true golden age ... Prior to then, British men had been clean-shaven for 150 years, a look exemplified by the smooth ...

At the height of 19th-century beard mania, there was even a brief fashion ... Nowadays most people shave themselves, but for hundreds of years men had to visit a barber to have their facial ...

Stephen L. Carter, Tribune News Service The Earth didn’t exactly shake when the New York Yankees announced that they would allow their players to ...

During the 19th century, the European monarchies associated ... But the historian Christopher Oldstone-Moore, in his 2017 volume Of Beards and Men: The Revealing History of Facial Hair, argues ...