London Beard Week 2023. Jeremy Corbyn, Charles Dickens, Bernie Grant & Michael Rosen named as London’s most Iconic Beards

Beard Liberation Front

Media Release

6th August

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Update: Michael Rosen has raised concerns about whether Charles Dickens would have wanted to be included in the poll while the Bernie Grant Trust has suggested that the late Tottenham MP would not have wanted to compete against Jeremy Corbyn. The Beard Liberation Front has committed to reviewing these issues and will provide an update on Sunday

Update Sunday 6th August.

1 It has been determined that Charles Dickens would have been pleased to be included in a poll for London’s Most Iconic Beards

2 The BLF accepts however that to discriminate between the most Iconic London Beards is against the spirit of beard liberation and that the title should therefore be collectively shared between the four beard wearers named

London Beard Week 2023 Jeremy Corbyn, Charles Dickens, Bernie Grant & Michael Rosen named as London’s most Iconic Beards

The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that London Beard Week which ended on 5th August marks the continued growth of beards in the Capital.

It coincides with the Campaign For Real Ale’s Great British Beer Festival at Olympia often the source of anti-beard stories in the media.

The annual vote for London’s most Iconic Beard featured Islington North MP Jeremy Corbyn, Charles Dickens, Bernie Grant and Michael Rosen. They collectively shared the coveted title

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.

BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, we congratulate the top London beard wearers whose iconic beards add gravitas to the Capital’s life and culture.

London Beard Week poll to find London’s most Iconic Beard.

Charles Dickens, author

Fred Engels, 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