Writing Beards – UiS podkast: Recent Episodes

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In this podcast Peter Ferry, a writer and researcher on beards, speaks to invited beard experts. There’s talk about trimming, razor-sharp insights, and bristling discussion about what changes in facial stylings throughout history tell us about who we are and why we need to keep writing about beards to understand who we are today. 

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The fifth episode of Writing Beards features Dr. Seb Coxon, Reader in German at (UCL) University College London. Seb is the writer of Beards and Texts: Images of Masculinity in Medieval German Literature, which has published by UCL press in September 2021. In this episode Les mer ...

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The fourth episode of Writing Beards features Eleanor Rycroft, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Theatre at the University of Bristol in the UK. Eleanor discusses being seen as the “Beard Lady” and the issues surrounding being the most prominent female researcher and Les mer ...

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The third episode of Writing Beards features Dr. Christopher Oldstone-Moore, arguably the figurehead of the ever growing field of Beards Studies. Christopher talks about the research and writing that led to his widely acclaimed beards book Of Beards and Men: The Les mer ...

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The second episode of Writing Beards features Dr. Barnaby Dixson, Honorary Senior Fellow in the School of Psychology at the University of Queensland, Australia, who makes us think again about just how much attention people are really paying towards beards. Barnaby Les mer ...

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The first episode of Writing Beards features historian and BBC New Generation Thinker Dr. Alun Withey. Alun talks about his journey to becoming arguably the most widely recognised and respected beards expert in the UK today. Alun has appeared in a wide variety Les mer ...