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Thomas K. Bullock

Best known for coauthoring a Colonial Williamsburg study of wigmakers and barbering, this writer helped bring everyday craft history to life. His work opens a small but vivid window onto trades, style, and daily business in eighteenth-century Virginia.

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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 known for historical writing connected with Colonial Williamsburg, especially The Wigmaker in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg, written with Maurice B. Tonkin Jr. The book explores barbering, hairdressing, and wigmaking in colonial Virginia and has remained available through later editions and public-domain ebook releases.

The surviving web record for Bullock is fairly sparse, so only a few details can be confirmed with confidence. Based on the sources available here, he appears as a researcher or writer interested in the working lives of early American craftspeople, helping document the practical world behind Williamsburg's restored eighteenth-century trades.

That narrow focus is part of the appeal of his work. Rather than telling broad political history, Bullock's writing looks closely at specialized crafts and the people who practiced them, giving readers a grounded sense of how everyday colonial life actually looked and functioned.