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Thomas K. Bullock

Known for vivid research into colonial trades, this historian helped bring everyday life in eighteenth-century Williamsburg into focus. His work on wigmaking and related crafts turns specialized history into something surprisingly approachable.

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The Wigmaker in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg An Account of His Barbering, Hair-dressing, & Peruke-Making Services, & Some Remarks on Wigs of Various Styles.

The Wigmaker in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg An Account of His Barbering, Hair-dressing, & Peruke-Making Services, & Some Remarks on Wigs of Various Styles.

by Thomas K. Bullock, Maurice B. Tonkin

About the author

Thomas K. Bullock is credited as a historian and coauthor of The Wigmaker in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg, a work developed from research connected with Colonial Williamsburg. Sources also associate him with research on early American craft life, including work related to silversmithing in Williamsburg.

The available record in this search is fairly sparse, but it consistently points to Bullock as a writer interested in the working lives of artisans rather than just famous political figures. In The Wigmaker in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg, written with Maurice B. Tonkin Jr., he helped document barbering, hairdressing, and peruke-making in colonial Virginia.

Because easily verifiable biographical details about his life are limited in the sources reviewed here, it is safest to remember him through the work itself: careful, focused historical writing that opens a window onto the tradespeople who shaped everyday life in early Williamsburg.