Mo Moulton, Historian

I am a professor of modern British & Irish history at the University of Birmingham in the UK.

I study collectives and communities: how people understand themselves as part of a nation, part of a subculture, or part of a co-operative, for example.

I use the frameworks of queer and trans history and postcolonial theory to study the past and to think about how it relates to our present-day preoccupations.

I’m currently collaborating on an AHRC-funded project about Irish landscapes and capitalism called “Sites of Fracture: 20th Century Ireland at the Margins of Capitalism.” I’m finishing a book about co-operative creameries. And I am launching a new MA programme in Gender & Sexuality at the University of Birmingham.

My personal pronouns are he/him/his. Contact me at m.moulton@bham.ac.uk.

The Mutual Admiration Society (Basic Books & Corsair, 2019) is a study of a group of friends and writers in early 20th century England.

Tracing the lives and loves of detective novelist Dorothy L. Sayers, pioneering women’s health advocate Charis Frankenburg, historian Muriel St. Clare Byrne, and theatre director Dorothy Rowe, it was the winner of an Agatha Award and an Anthony Award. More here.

Ireland and the Irish in Interwar England (Cambridge University Press, 2014), the runner-up for the Royal Historical Society’s Whitfield Prize, traces the social and cultural effects of Irish independence in 1922 on communities within England. It argues that the silences and accommodations around this rupture prefigure later postcolonial amnesia. More here.