Matt Cook

Matt Cook is professor of modern history at Birkbeck College, University of London. Oxford University announced on 5 June 2023 that Cook will take up the position as the first Jonathan Cooper chair of the history of sexualities at Mansfield College in October 2023. This will make him UK's first Professor of LGBTQ+ history. Selected publications London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885 - 1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003). A Gay History of Britain: Love and Sex Between Men since the Middle Ages (Oxford: Greenwood, 2007) – editor and lead author. Queer 1950s: Rethinking Sexuality in the Post-war Years (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) – co-editor with Heike Bauer. Queer Cities, Queer Cultures: Sexuality and Urban Life in post-1945 Europe (London: Continuum, 2014) - co-editor with Jennifer Evans. Queer Domesticities: Homosexuality and Home Life in Twentieth-Century London (London: Palgrave, 2014). References Living people Year of birth missing (living people) British historians Academics of Birkbeck, University of London Academics of Keele University Historians of LGBT topics