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Day: May 8, 2019

London in 5 great beards

London in 5 great beards
A fine beard in Soho, from the 100 Strangers Project © Peter McConnochie/CC by-ND 2.0
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Walk down any street in London circa 1870 and a man without a beard would have been the rare exception. The capital, and the nation, was gripped by a beard obsession, as Victorian males aped the soldiers returning from …

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Joe Bindloss has been writing travel guidebooks, coffee table books and print and online articles about travel for more than 20 years, covering dozens of destinations around the world, with a special focus on London, India and South Asia and Southeast Asia. After a decade as commissioning editor for the Indian Subcontinent for Lonely Planet, he is now working freelance.

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