Matt Cook (historian)

Matthew "Matt" Cook FRHistS[1] is a social and cultural historian specializing in LGBTQ and queer history.

Since October 2023, he has served as the Jonathan Cooper Chair of the History of Sexuality at Mansfield College, Oxford University.

He went on to teach for 18 years at Birkbeck College, University of London, where he ultimately was named professor of modern history and head of the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology.

[4] Cook worked with the National Trust in 2017 on their Prejudice and Pride programme and co-authored its associated guidebook.

He has also advised on archival projects related to the history of gender and sexuality, including English Heritage's Pride of Place and the Pitt Rivers Museum's Beyond the Binary.