Geraldine Biddle-Perry is Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK.

A thick, tangled and deliciously idiosyncratic history of hair ... There is plenty to inform and intrigue here, partly because the study of hair demands an exhilarating disciplinary range: from the art of cuts and colours, the history of scissors, razors and combs and the sociology of barbershops, to the semiotics of hair pulling and lock tugging, the ethnography of “Afros”, and the sexual politics of boyish bobs ... The volumes appeal to period-specific scholars, but also slot together, forming a continuous, braided history.

• Volume 1: A Cultural History of Hair in AntiquityEdited by Mary Harlow, University of Leicester, UKVolume 2: A Cultural History of Hair in the Middle AgesEdited by Roberta Milliken, Shawnee State University, USAVolume 3: A Cultural History of Hair in the RenaissanceEdited by Edith Snook, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, CanadaVolume 4: A Cultural History of Hair in the Age of EnlightenmentEdited by Margaret K. Powell and Joseph Roach, Yale University, USAVolume 5: A Cultural History of Hair in the Age of EmpireEdited by Sarah Heaton, University of Chester, UKVolume 6: A Cultural History of Hair in the Modern AgeEdited by Geraldine Biddle-Perry, Central Saint Martins, UK

Geraldine Biddle-Perry is Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK.

A thick, tangled and deliciously idiosyncratic history of hair ... There is plenty to inform and intrigue here, partly because the study of hair demands an exhilarating disciplinary range: from the art of cuts and colours, the history of scissors, razors and combs and the sociology of barbershops, to the semiotics of hair pulling and lock tugging, the ethnography of “Afros”, and the sexual politics of boyish bobs ... The volumes appeal to period-specific scholars, but also slot together, forming a continuous, braided history.

• Volume 1: A Cultural History of Hair in AntiquityEdited by Mary Harlow, University of Leicester, UKVolume 2: A Cultural History of Hair in the Middle AgesEdited by Roberta Milliken, Shawnee State University, USAVolume 3: A Cultural History of Hair in the RenaissanceEdited by Edith Snook, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, CanadaVolume 4: A Cultural History of Hair in the Age of EnlightenmentEdited by Margaret K. Powell and Joseph Roach, Yale University, USAVolume 5: A Cultural History of Hair in the Age of EmpireEdited by Sarah Heaton, University of Chester, UKVolume 6: A Cultural History of Hair in the Modern AgeEdited by Geraldine Biddle-Perry, Central Saint Martins, UK

Geraldine Biddle-Perry is Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK.

A thick, tangled and deliciously idiosyncratic history of hair ... There is plenty to inform and intrigue here, partly because the study of hair demands an exhilarating disciplinary range: from the art of cuts and colours, the history of scissors, razors and combs and the sociology of barbershops, to the semiotics of hair pulling and lock tugging, the ethnography of “Afros”, and the sexual politics of boyish bobs ... The volumes appeal to period-specific scholars, but also slot together, forming a continuous, braided history.

• Volume 1: A Cultural History of Hair in AntiquityEdited by Mary Harlow, University of Leicester, UKVolume 2: A Cultural History of Hair in the Middle AgesEdited by Roberta Milliken, Shawnee State University, USAVolume 3: A Cultural History of Hair in the RenaissanceEdited by Edith Snook, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, CanadaVolume 4: A Cultural History of Hair in the Age of EnlightenmentEdited by Margaret K. Powell and Joseph Roach, Yale University, USAVolume 5: A Cultural History of Hair in the Age of EmpireEdited by Sarah Heaton, University of Chester, UKVolume 6: A Cultural History of Hair in the Modern AgeEdited by Geraldine Biddle-Perry, Central Saint Martins, UK