Beard Liberation Front
Media Release
8th August
Contact BLF Organiser Keith Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social
London Beard Week 2025 Best Ever London Beard. Jeremy Corbyn, W G Grace, William Morris & Michael Rosen face off in Final Vote
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that London Beard Week which runs from 5-9th August marks the continuing growth of beards in the Capital.
It traditionally coincides with the Campaign For Real Ale’s Great British Beer Festival at Olympia often the source of anti-beard stories in the media. However this is running at the NEC in Birmingham in 2025. The Beard Liberation Front has sent follicular greetings for good imbibing.
The campaigners say that aside from the many more beards to be 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 generally 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 Islington North MP Jeremy Corbyn 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, past and present.
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 stylish and perhaps even world changing beards to be promoted further
London Beard Week poll to find London’s most Iconic Beard.
An online poll will run during the week. Final vote pinned at Twitter or respond to this post
In the preliminary votes, Jeremy Corbyn, William Morris, W G Grace & Michael Rosen shaved the other contenders.
Charles Dickens, author
Fred Engels, philosopher and activist
Michael Rosen, author & broadcaster
William Morris, socialist & designer
Jeremy Corbyn, Islington North MP
William Cuffay, Leader of London Chartism
Bernie Grant, London Labour MP
W G Grace, cricketer
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