Frank Mort

Frank Mort FRHistS, is a British historian, author and broadcaster who is currently Emeritus Professor of Cultural History at the University of Manchester, 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 (BA English and Related Literature) and the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, University of Birmingham, where he completed his PhD with Stuart Hall and Richard Johnson.

Career Mort was Senior Lecturer and then Reader at the University of Portsmouth (1986–97) before being appointed founding Director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre, University of East London (1998–2004). He then joined the University of Manchester 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, Johns Hopkins, Michigan and Princeton, and at the National Humanities Center (USA).