Oxford University appoints UK’s first professor of LGBTQ+ history

Matt Cook was at Birkbeck for 18 years, where he was professor of modern history. Photograph: Keiko Ikeuchi/University of Oxford/PA

The renowned cultural historian Matt Cook is to become the UK’s first fully endowed professor of LGBTQ+ history in a newly created post at Mansfield College, Oxford.

Cook, who has written extensively on queer urban life, the Aids crisis and queer domesticity, will become the first Jonathan Cooper chair of the history of sexualities later this year.