Matt Cook
Matt Cook is Jonathan Cooper Chair of the History of Sexuality Mansfield College, University of Oxford. He is a cultural historian specializing in the history of sexuality and the history of London in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In addition to three edited collections on LGBTQ histories, he is author of London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885 – 1914 (2003) and Queer Domesticities: Homosexuality and Home Life in Twentieth-Century London (2014). With Alison Oram, he is author of Queer Beyond London (2022) and with Justin Bengry and Alison Oram he is editor of Locating Queer Histories: Places and Traces across the UK (2022). Matt is also an editor of History Workshop Journal.
Alison Oram
Alison Oram is Professor Emerita at Leeds Beckett University and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research. She is a leading scholar of gender and sexuality, popular culture, public history and intersections of these with LGBTQ heritage. She is author of numerous articles and two books on LGBTQ history: The Lesbian History Sourcebook (2001) and most recently Her Husband Was a Woman!” Women’s Gender-Crossing and Modern British Popular Culture (2007). With Matt Cook, she is author of Queer Beyond London (2022) and with Justin Bengry and Matt Cook she is editor of Locating Queer Histories: Places and Traces across the UK (2022). Alison also led the project “Pride of Place: England’s LGBTQ Heritage“, an initiative funded by Historic England, the government agency responsible for protecting England’s historic buildings and landscapes.
Justin Bengry
Justin Bengry is Director of the Centre for Queer History at Goldsmiths, University of London where he convenes the MA Queer History. He is a cultural historian of modern Britain researching the relationship between homosexuality and capitalism. He is an Associate of the Raphael Samuel History Centre, on the Advisory Board for History Workshop, and was lead researcher for the Historic England initiative Pride of Place, led by Alison Oram. With Matt Cook and Alison Oram he is editor of Locating Queer Histories: Places and Traces across the UK (2022). Justin is founder and editor of the international history of sexuality blog NOTCHES: (re)marks on the history of sexuality.
Katy Petit
Katy Petit is the project Administrator for Queer beyond London and a cultural historian of modern Britain. Her PhD examined the The Food Culture of East London, 1880 to 1914, offering a re-reading of the cultural history of East London’s working class by focusing on the culture of food.