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The Essay Masculinity Episodes

    The Hard Man in the Call Centre

    5/5 Alistair Fraser on the fates and fortunes of Glaswegian tough guys.

    'Bedford, do you call this thing a coat?' The History of the Three-Piece Suit

    4/5 Sarah Goldsmith on an immortal trio jacket, waistcoat and trousers.

    Comrades in Arms

    3/5 Tom Smith on the East German Military's fascination with its soldiers' sexuality

    Sword to Pen: Redcoat and the Rise of the Military Memoir

    2/5 Emma Butcher on the publishing phenomenon that was the traumatised Napoleonic Redcoat

    The Well-Groomed Georgian

    1/5 Alun Withey on what made 18th-century men shave off centuries of manly growth.