Beard Liberation Front
Media Release
5th August
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London Beard Week 2022. Corbyn, Freud, Marx & Rosen face off for Most Iconic London Beard title
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that London Beard Week ends on 6th August with the announcement of the Most Iconic London Beard. The week highlights the continued growth of beards in the Capital.
For the first time since 2019 it alsocoincides with the Campaign For Real Ale’s Great British Beer Festival at Olympia often the source of anti-beard stories in the media.
The campaigners say that aside from the many more beards seen in workplaces, shops and pubs, there is also a growth of specialist beard care shops and hairdressers offering beard trims and treatments, although the BLF advises against beard trims in barbers shops.
London Beard Week is a celebration of London, now one of the most beard friendly Capital cities in the world, and of London’s great hirsute heritage from Charles Dickens to Karl Marx through to modern day beards such as England football captain Harry Kane and author and Arsenal fan Michael Rosen.
As part of the week the BLF is running a poll to find the most impactful and impressive figure with a beard who is associated with London. Jeremy Corbyn shaved Sigmund Freud to win Round One. In Round Two Karl Marx bearded Michael Rosen. The top two from each round now enter a final Face Off for the coveted Most Iconic Beard of London 2022 title
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, London is striking a decisive blow against pogonophobia, the irrational dislike of facial hair. It’s now respectable to wear a beard in London but that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for hirsute rebellion as well.
London Beard Week poll to find London’s most Iconic Beard.
Charles Dickens, author
Karl Marx, philosopher and activist
Michael Rosen, author & broadcaster
Sigmund Freud, psychoanalyst
Jeremy Corbyn, Islington North MP
William Cuffay, Leader of London Chartism
Bernie Grant, London Labour MP
Roger Protz, beer writer
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