Matt Houlbrook
British academic historian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Matthew Houlbrook , known professionally as Matt Houlbrook, is a British academic historian who is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Birmingham. Career Houlbrook grew up near the Lincolnshire town of Scunthorpe, and studied history at the University of Cambridge before completing his doctorate at the University of Essex in 2002, for a thesis entitled sun among cities": space, identities and queer male practices, London 1918–57. He then spent a year as a Junior Research Fellow at New College, Oxford, and then five years at the University of Liverpool. In 2008 he was appointed a Fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he taught history until his move to the University of Birmingham in 2013; as of 2017, he is Professor of Cultural History there.
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- Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957 (2005) (152)
- PALGRAVE ADVANCES IN THE MODERN HISTORY OF SEXUALITY (2006) (45)
- ‘A Pin to See the Peepshow’: Culture, Fiction and Selfhood in Edith Thompson’s Letters, 1921–1922 (2010) (32)
- Soldier Heroes and Rent Boys: Homosex, Masculinities, and Britishness in the Brigade of Guards, circa 1900–1960 (2003) (32)
- ‘THE MAN WITH THE POWDER PUFF’ IN INTERWAR LONDON (2007) (28)
- The Heart in Exile: Detachment and Desire in 1950s London (2006) (26)
- The Private World of Public Urinals: London 1918–57 (2000) (20)
- ‘Lady Austin’s Camp Boys’: Constituting the Queer Subject in 1930s London (2002) (20)
- Commodifying the Self Within: Ghosts, Libels, and the Crook Life Story in Interwar Britain* (2013) (13)
- Prince of Tricksters: The Incredible True Story of Netley Lucas, Gentleman Crook (2016) (12)
- Toward a Historical Geography of Sexuality (2001) (12)
- Fashioning an ex-crook self: citizenship and criminality in the work of Netley Lucas. (2013) (9)
- Sexing the History of Sexuality (2005) (6)
- INTRODUCTION: The press and popular culture in interwar Europe (2013) (6)
- 'For Whose Convenience? Gay Guides, Cognitive Maps and the Construction of Homosexual London: 1917-1967' (2001) (5)
- The press and popular culture in interwar Europe (2015) (4)
- ‘The Most Remarkable Woman in England’: Poison, Celebrity and the Trials of Beatrice Pace (2013) (3)
- On the Emptiness of the Glory Hole, and Other non-Problems (2016) (1)
- The Persistence of the Victorian Prison: Alteration, Inhabitation, Obsolescence, and Affirmative Design (2022) (1)
- An age of emotion: expertise and subjectivity in old age in Britain, 1937-1970 (2012) (1)
- Cracking cribs: representations of burglars and burglary in London, 1860-1939 (2013) (1)
- INTRODUCTION (2013) (0)
- Charming Faces and the Problem of Identification (2021) (0)
- Julian Jackson. Living in Arcadia: Homosexuality, Politics, and Morality in France from the Liberation to AIDS. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2009. Pp. xiii, 321. $40.00 (2011) (0)
- :Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England (2009) (0)
- Book Review: Backward glances: cruising the queer streets of New York and London (2005) (0)
- Defining the Carceral Characteristics of the ‘Dickensian prison’: A Corpus Stylistics Analysis of Dickens’s Novels (2023) (0)
- Housing needs: power, subjectivity and public housing in England, 1920-1970 (2012) (0)
- The celebrity gossip column and newspaper journalism in Britain, 1918-1939 (2014) (0)
- 1. Charming Faces and the Problem of Identification (2021) (0)
- Editorial Board (2013) (0)
- Martha Vicinus. Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778–1928. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2004. Pp. xxxii, 314. $35.00 (2006) (0)
- "Introduction" and "Cities" (2005) (0)
- Desire: A History of European Sexuality (review) (2011) (0)
- Book Review: Queer Fictions of the Past: History, Culture and Difference (1999) (0)
- Passion's Fortune: The Story of Mills and Boon (review) (2001) (0)
- Sharon Marcus. Between Women: Friendship, Desire,and Marriage in Victorian England. Princeton: PrincetonUniversity Press. 2007. Pp. x, 356. Cloth $65.00, paper$19.95Reviews of BooksEurope: Early Modern and Modern (2009) (0)
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