Frank Mort FRHistS, is a British historian, author and broadcaster who is currently Emeritus Professor of Cultural History at the

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...

, UK. His work is on urban history, modern sexuality, consumer culture and the history of the British monarchy.

Education

Mort grew up in Cheshire and Derbyshire. He was educated at Buxton College Grammar School and then at the

University of York , mottoeng = On the threshold of wisdom , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £8.0 million , budget = £403.6 million , chancellor = Heather Melville , vice_chancellor = Charlie Jeffery , students ...

(BA English and Related Literature) and the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies,

University of Birmingham , mottoeng = Through efforts to heights , established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...

, where he completed his PhD with Stuart Hall and Richard Johnson.

Career

Mort was Senior Lecturer and then Reader at the

University of Portsmouth The University of Portsmouth is a public university in Portsmouth, England. It is one of only four universities in the South East England, South East of England rated as Gold in the Government's Teaching Excellence Framework. With approximately 28 ...

(1986–97) before being appointed founding Director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre,

University of East London , mottoeng = Knowledge and the fulfilment of vows , established = 1898 – West Ham Technical Institute1952 – West Ham College of Technology1970 – North East London Polytechnic1989 – Polytechnic of East London ...

(1998–2004). He then joined the

as Professor of Cultural Histories (2004–23) and he was founding Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts, CIDRA (2004–08). He was a Labour councillor for the London Borough of Islington between 1986 and 1990. Mort has held visiting professorships and fellowships at the Universities of Columbia,

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and

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, and at the

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(USA). He is on the editorial and advisory boards of journals that include

Cultural and Social History ''Cultural and Social History'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering cultural and social history published by Routledge five times a year on behalf of the Social History Society. It was established in 2004. Abstracting and indexing The jo ...

and Twentieth Century British History, together with the Palgrave Studies in Modern Monarchy book series.

Publications

* ''Dangerous Sexualities. Medico-Moral Politics in England since 1830'' (1987), second edition (2001). * ''Moments of Modernity. Reconstructing Britain 1945-64'' (edited with Becky Conekin and Chris Waters) (1999). * ''Cultures of Consumption: Masculinities and Social Space in Late-Twentieth Century Britain'' (1996), Chinese edition (2000). * ''Commercial Cultures. Economies, Practices and Spaces'' (edited with

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, Michele Lowe and Daniel Miller) (2000). * ''Capital Affairs: London and the Making of the Permissive Society'' (2010).

References

British historians Urban historians Fellows of the Royal Historical Society Alumni of the University of York Alumni of the University of Birmingham Academics of the University of Portsmouth Academics of the University of Manchester People associated with the University of East London Councillors in the London Borough of Islington Year of birth missing (living people) Living people {{UK-historian-stub