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Frank Mort (born 1953) FRHistS is a British author, broadcaster and historian who is currently Emeritus Professor of Cultural History at the University of Manchester. He is best known for his work on urban history, the history of the British monarchy, modern sexuality and consumer culture.

Education
Mort studied at the University of York (BA English and Related Literature) and then the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, University of Birmingham where he completed his PhD with Professor Stuart Hall and Dr 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 (2004-2023) 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). He is on the editorial and advisory boards of journals that include Cultural and Social History, Twentieth Century British History together with the Palgrave Studies in Modern Monarchy book series. Mort is currently working on a major study of the twentieth-century British monarchy to be published by Oxford University Press.

Works

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