Published in 2005, the book received the Longman-History Today Book of the Year Prize and the Royal Historical Society’s Whitfield Prize for the best first book on British history. Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-57, my first book, explored the relationship between sex and the city - the ways in which modern urban life shaped how men experienced, organised, and understood their sexual desires and practices. In the past, I have written about questions of gender, sexuality, and selfhood. I grew up just outside Scunthorpe, and went to my local comprehensive school and sixth form college, before going to university in Cambridge and getting my PhD from the University of Essex.Īs a historian, my work focuses on British society and culture in the decades after the Great War. After working at the Universities of Liverpool and Oxford for over a decade, I moved here in September 2013. I am Professor of Cultural History at the University of Birmingham.
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