Eve is a fourth-year History PhD researcher at the University of Manchester, where she previously completed her BA and MA in History. Her doctoral project was funded by Economic and Social Research Council, and she currently holds a Royal Historical Society Centenary Fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research. Her thesis is titled 'Women, the built environment, and life narratives: reconstructing the relationship between gender and state-led urban development through three new towns in North-West England, c.1961-1989'.

In this talk, Eve will explore the ways that working-class women's communities were constructed in Skelmersdale new town in Lancashire and Runcorn new town in Cheshire during the late twentieth century. Both these new towns were established in the 1960s to provide housing and jobs for people from Liverpool. To examine the new forms of community that emerged in Skelmersdale and Runcorn, Eve's talk will draw on archival material produced by local policymakers and urban planners, as well as oral history interviews that she has conducted with women who moved to the new towns during the 1970s and 1980s.