Matt Cook

Dr Matt Cook is a cultural historian specialising in the history of sexuality and the history of London in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries at Birkbeck, University of London. He has a background in literary and cultural theory and a strong interest in cross- and inter-disciplinary work. He is an editor of History Workshop Journal and was previously Lecturer in Modern British History at Keele University.

Dr Cook became co-director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre (with Professor Barbara Taylor, University of East London) in September 2008 and is also a member of the steering committees of the Birkbeck Institute of Gender and Sexuality (BIGS); Birkbeck's Centre for Research in Representations of Kinship and Community; the cross-institutional Britain at Work project; and Living London, an oral history project by Stonewall Housing and Galop.

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 (Greenwood, March 2007). Book editor and author of the introduction and two chapters on the twentieth century: "Queer Conflicts" and "From Gay Reform to Gaydar"