Eve Colpus. Female Philanthropy in the Interwar World

The literature of the history of philanthropy in Britain is significantly less copious than that of the United States. Some reasons that might be suggested for this discrepancy are that, in the UK, philanthropy is not of the same scale and has never achieved the status it has in the United States. In Britain in the twentieth century, philanthropy, with some notable exceptions, has not been accepted as a significant area of study, being entirely eclipsed by a concentration on the development, and decline, of the welfare state. Thus we have no general history of British philanthropy since David Owen’s English Philanthropy, 1669–1960, published in 1964—and Owen, incidentally, was American. Fortunately a new generation of young scholars is now beginning to rectify this omission and is bringing fresh and innovative perspectives to both the history of philanthropy itself and its relationship with the wider world. With Female Philanthropy in the Interwar World: Between Self and Other, her first book, Eve Colpus takes a prominent position among them.

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