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Eve Colpus is an Associate Professor in British and European History post-1850 at the University of Southampton's History Department. Her research focuses on 20th-century British social/cultural history, with specializations in childhood/youth histories, technology use, gender studies, and celebrity reputation dynamics. She leads an AHRC-funded project analyzing 1980s-1990s British youth telephone culture. Previously, her work examined interwar philanthropy, yielding her acclaimed monograph Female Philanthropy in the Interwar World (2018).
Her teaching emphasizes 'ordinary lives' in modern Britain and comparative gender/sexuality histories. She supervises PhDs in modern British history, gender studies, and childhood/youth history. Colpus holds a DPhil from Oxford University (2011) and has held postdoctoral roles at Oxford's Diasporas Programme and Barnett House project. She co-led the Wellcome-funded '30 Years of ChildLine' archival project (2016).
Awards include the Duncan Tanner Essay Prize (2010) and Women's History Network recognition (2019). Current research explores telephone's role in youth identity, family mediation, and leisure in late-20th-century Britain.
