Matt Cook is Professor of History at Birkbeck. He is a cultural historian specialising in the history of sexuality in Britain during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has published extensively on queer histories and cultures (including queer local, community and public histories), on the history of London, and on histories of home and family. He is an editor of History Workshop Journal, sits on the steering committee of the Birkbeck Institute of Gender and Sexuality (BIGS), and was director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre (2009 – 2018). He is currently Assistant Dean and Head of the Department of History, Classics, and Archaeology at Birkbeck.