Beards Part 1!

Monday, June 1st, 2020

Beards Part 1!

Inspired by the beard-growing that was taken up by so many of us all in Coronavirus lockdown, Sam and James tackle the unexpected history of BEARDS…which is all about the Crimean War, Ottoman pirates and ‘Turning Turk, Peter the Great, gas masks, and modernity in the seventeenth century! WHO KNEW!!!!

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