Dr Eve Pennington
Research Fellow
Institute of Arts and Humanities
History, Politics and Sociology
email: e.pennington@worc.ac.uk
Dr Eve Pennington is a historian of modern Britain who specialises in gender history, urban history, and oral history. She completed her PhD at the University of Manchester in 2025, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and further supported by a Royal Historical Society Centenary Fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research.
Eve is currently working with Dr Anna Muggeridge and Dr Beckie Rutherford on a UKRI funded research project, , investigating the history of maternal activism in the UK since 1914. She is also a Lecturer in Global Economic History at the University of Manchester.
Qualifications
PhD History, University of Manchester
MA History, University of Manchester
BA (Hons) History, University of Manchester
Teaching Interests
Eve teaches on a range of undergraduate modules at the University of Manchester covering modern British history, imperial history, and economic history, and she also supervises third year dissertation students.
Research Interests
Eve is broadly interested in the ways that women’s lives intersected with processes of urban change during the twentieth century, as well as how social relations were produced through space and the built environment.
Her PhD thesis examined the relationship between gender and urban development through the lens of three ‘new towns’ established in north-west England during the second half of the twentieth century.
As part of the UKRI project, Eve’s current research examines women’s activism within Gingerbread, an organisation which was established in 1971 to provide support for lone parent families in the UK.
Publications
Book review of Alistair Fair et al., Building Modern Scotland (Bloomsbury, 2025), Cultural and Social History (forthcoming 2026).