The timeline · 9 eras

Five thousand years, one strand

Walk the archive era by era — each one a turning point in how hair was worn and understood.

AI-generated period-style interpretation for The History of Hair — not an archival photograph

01 · 3000 BCE – 500 CE
Antiquity
Egyptian wigs, Greek fillets and Roman curling tongs.
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02 · 500 – 1400
Medieval
Covered heads, wimples and the high plucked forehead.
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03 · 1400 – 1600
Renaissance
Venetian blondes, pearls and the barber-surgeon's pole.
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04 · 1700 – 1789
Rococo
Powdered poufs, pomatum and the height of excess.
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05 · 1837 – 1910
Victorian
Centre partings, hair jewellery and the hair receiver.
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06 · 1920 – 1929
Jazz Age
The bob, the shingle and the Marcel wave.
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07 · 1930 – 1959
Golden Hollywood
Pin curls, victory rolls and the studio hairdresser.
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08 · 1960 – 1989
Revolution
The Afro, the Sassoon cut and the mop-top.
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09 · 1990 – now
Today
Texture, technology and trichology.
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Antiquity