WEIRD HAIR HISTORY: WHEN HAIRDRESSERS…WERE SURGEONS!
Lost footage of the 600th anniversary of the start of barbering (1948)
While hair cutting has been a trade since ancient Egypt, it was England in 1348 that formally recognized the trade and begin the formal training and certification of the craft of haircutting. However when Oxford University created the first barber charter, that’s not all they would do. A trip to the barber and you could have surgery done, have your teeth worked on, have a little bloodletting and leeching (good for the what ails you) as well as a great shave.