Dr Chris Jeppesen
I am a social and cultural historian of Modern Britain and the British empire during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with a keen interest in the relationship between British institutions and empire. My current research examines historic connections between Trinity College, economies of enslavement, and the British empire. My work explores a range of themes across the period including the connections between the East India Company and the Caribbean sugar economy in the pre-Victorian empire, career motivation among colonial officials, the material legacies of empire in Britain after decolonization, and British universities' imperial connections. Most recently, I was part of a research team researching the social and cultural experience of secondary education in Britain after 1945, with a particular focus on the ways in which decolonization affected this core component of the postwar welfare state. I studied at the universities of St Andrews and Cambridge. Before joining Trinity, I taught at UCL, King’s London, and the University of Cambridge.
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Trinity College, University of Cambridge
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JD Carpentieri, Laura Carter, & Chris Jeppesen, 'Between life course research and social history: new approaches to qualitative data in the British birth cohort studies', International Journal of Social Research Methodology, (2023).
Chris Jeppesen & Sarah Longair, 'Domestic museums of decolonisation? Objects, colonial officials, and the afterlives of empire in Britain', in Berny Sèbe & Matthew G. Stanard, Decolonising Europe? Popular Responses to the End of Empire (Routledge, 2020).
Chris Jeppesen, ‘Growing up in a Company town: the East India Company presence in Hertfordshire’, in Margot Finn & Kate Smith (eds.) The East India Company at Home (UCL Press, 2018).
Andrew W. M. Smith & Chris Jeppesen, Britain, France and the decolonization of Africa: future imperfect? (UCL Press, 2017).
Chris Jeppesen, ‘East meets west: exploring the connections between Britain, the Caribbean and East India Company, c.1757–1857’, chapter in R. Hanley, J. Moody & K. Donington (eds.), Britain's History and Memory of Transatlantic Slavery: Local Nuances of a ‘National Sin (Liverpool University Press, 2016).
Chris Jeppesen, ‘Sanders of the River, Still the Best Job for a British Boy.' Colonial Administrative Service recruitment at the end of empire', The Historical Journal, 59:02 (2016), 469-508.