Join Professor Emma Tarlo, Department of Anthropology, author of Entanglement: The Secret Lives of Hair, and Literary Review contributor Wendy Moore for a conversation on the history of hair – from fashion and beauty to religion, politics and cultural identity.

16 May 2017- 6:30pm
Aesop Soho, 41 Lexington Street, London, W1F 9AJ  (directly across from the Literary Review office on Lexington Street)
Free, all welcome

Although this is a free event, please do RSVP to rsvp.uk@aesop.com with the subject line Literary Review to reserve your place.

Emma Tarlo is a professor of anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. She regularly gives public lectures worldwide and contributes to BBC Radio programmes and news articles. She lives in London.

Wendy Moore is a freelance journalist and author of several books, most recently The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor who held Victorian London Spellbound. She is a regular contributor to Literary Review.

How is human hair commodified? Watch Professor Tarlo discuss her research on the global human hair trade

Entanglement: The Secret Lives of Hair is published by Oneworld in hardback and is available on Amazon and in all good bookshops