diff --git a/backend/migrations/1788100000000_add-customer-email-changes.js b/backend/migrations/1788100000000_add-customer-email-changes.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2c11d32
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend/migrations/1788100000000_add-customer-email-changes.js
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+exports.up = (pgm) => {
+  pgm.sql(`
+    -- An email address changed by the shop rather than by the customer (#337).
+    --
+    -- This exists because of what the action is. A customer who has lost access
+    -- to their mailbox has no self-service route back in, and there should not
+    -- be one — this shop holds no second proof of identity, and anything
+    -- invented to fill that gap would be a weaker credential than the one it
+    -- replaced. So the route is manual: the owner verifies the customer against
+    -- order history and moves the account to an address they can reach.
+    --
+    -- That is also, exactly, what an account takeover looks like. The two are
+    -- the same operation and differ only in whether the verification was sound.
+    -- A hand-written database edit leaves nothing to tell them apart afterwards.
+    -- This table is what does.
+    CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS customer_email_changes (
+      id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
+
+      -- Cascades with the customer, deliberately. Both addresses here are
+      -- personal data, so a record that outlived an erasure request would keep
+      -- exactly what the erasure was for. A deleted account also has no
+      -- takeover left to investigate.
+      customer_id INTEGER NOT NULL REFERENCES customers(id) ON DELETE CASCADE,
+
+      -- Copied rather than referenced, because the whole point is what the
+      -- address *was*. The customers row holds the new one and cannot answer
+      -- this question a moment after the change.
+      previous_email TEXT NOT NULL,
+      new_email TEXT NOT NULL,
+
+      -- What the operator typed, and NOT NULL because a change with no stated
+      -- reason is the one this table exists to make impossible. Never shown to
+      -- the customer: it is a note about how they were verified, and it can
+      -- name things the customer should not be handed back.
+      reason TEXT NOT NULL,
+
+      -- No "who". Admin access is one shared gate secret in front of a single
+      -- operator (see middleware/adminGate.ts), so a column for it could only
+      -- ever hold a constant, and a constant dressed up as an identity is worse
+      -- than an honest absence. If per-admin identity ever arrives, that is
+      -- when this gains a column and not before.
+      changed_at TIMESTAMPTZ NOT NULL DEFAULT now()
+    );
+
+    -- The read is always "what has happened to this account", so it is scoped
+    -- by owner and ordered by time.
+    CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS customer_email_changes_customer_id_idx
+      ON customer_email_changes (customer_id, changed_at DESC);
+  `);
+};
+
+exports.down = (pgm) => {
+  pgm.sql(`DROP TABLE IF EXISTS customer_email_changes;`);
+};
diff --git a/backend/src/customerVerification.ts b/backend/src/customerVerification.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5948563
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend/src/customerVerification.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+import crypto from 'node:crypto';
+import { pool } from './db';
+import { sendMail } from './mailer';
+import { renderTemplate, greeting, formatDuration } from './emailTemplates';
+import { getSettings } from './adminSettings';
+import { loadStoredTemplate } from './routes/adminEmailTemplates';
+
+/**
+ * Issuing a "confirm this address" link, for every route that changes an address.
+ *
+ * Lifted out of routes/customers.ts when the admin gained the ability to move an
+ * account to a new address (#337), for the same reason session creation was
+ * lifted out for passkeys: two implementations that agree today are two
+ * implementations that can be changed one at a time, and the one that would be
+ * forgotten is whichever the manual testing does not exercise. The admin path
+ * runs perhaps once a year, so it is exactly the one that would rot.
+ *
+ * Anything that puts a new address on an account belongs here: registration, a
+ * resend, the customer changing their own, and the shop changing it for them.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Supersedes any outstanding link as part of issuing the new one, so a message
+ * already sitting in an old inbox cannot verify a newer address. Deleting first
+ * is the part that matters — an un-superseded link means an older message still
+ * verifies.
+ *
+ * Sending is fire-and-forget by the rule the rest of this codebase follows: the
+ * token row is written first, so a send that fails cannot leave a customer
+ * believing a link exists that does not, only waiting for one that never came.
+ */
+export async function issueVerificationEmail(
+  customerId: number,
+  email: string,
+  firstName: string | null,
+  lastName: string | null = null
+): Promise<void> {
+  await pool.query(
+    `DELETE FROM customer_tokens WHERE customer_id = $1 AND kind = 'verify_email'`,
+    [customerId]
+  );
+  const { verifyTokenHours, greetingFormat, greetingFallback } = await getSettings();
+  const token = crypto.randomBytes(24).toString('hex');
+  await pool.query(
+    `INSERT INTO customer_tokens (token, customer_id, kind, expires_at) VALUES ($1, $2, 'verify_email', $3)`,
+    [token, customerId, new Date(Date.now() + verifyTokenHours * 60 * 60 * 1000)]
+  );
+  const verifyUrl = `${process.env.PUBLIC_URL}/verify-email?token=${token}`;
+  const template = renderTemplate('verification', await loadStoredTemplate('verification'), {
+    greeting: greeting(firstName, greetingFormat, greetingFallback, lastName),
+    firstName: firstName ?? '',
+    lastName: lastName ?? '',
+    verifyUrl,
+    expiresIn: formatDuration(verifyTokenHours)
+  });
+  sendMail(email, template.subject, template.html)
+    .catch(err => console.error('verify email send failed', err));
+}
diff --git a/backend/src/db-kysely/schema.ts b/backend/src/db-kysely/schema.ts
index 1294691..77d9eed 100644
--- a/backend/src/db-kysely/schema.ts
+++ b/backend/src/db-kysely/schema.ts
@@ -106,6 +106,15 @@ export interface Customers {
   unsubscribe_token: string;
 }
 
+export interface CustomerEmailChanges {
+  changed_at: Generated<Timestamp>;
+  customer_id: number;
+  id: Generated<number>;
+  new_email: string;
+  previous_email: string;
+  reason: string;
+}
+
 export interface CustomerSessions {
   created_at: Generated<Timestamp>;
   customer_id: number;
@@ -241,6 +250,7 @@ export interface DB {
   checkout_items: CheckoutItems;
   checkouts: Checkouts;
   customer_credentials: CustomerCredentials;
+  customer_email_changes: CustomerEmailChanges;
   customer_sessions: CustomerSessions;
   customer_tokens: CustomerTokens;
   customers: Customers;
diff --git a/backend/src/emailTemplates.ts b/backend/src/emailTemplates.ts
index 1e8cd16..f041e40 100644
--- a/backend/src/emailTemplates.ts
+++ b/backend/src/emailTemplates.ts
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ export type TemplateKey =
   | 'favoriteWithdrawn'
   | 'cartReminder'
   | 'emailChanged'
+  | 'emailChangedByAdmin'
   | 'intakeDraft'
   | 'uploadLink';
 
@@ -119,6 +120,40 @@ export const TEMPLATES: Record<TemplateKey, TemplateDefinition> = {
       'If you did not, contact us straight away: whoever made the change can now\n' +
       'receive password reset links for your account.'
   },
+  emailChangedByAdmin: {
+    label: 'Email address changed by the shop',
+    // Its own template rather than reusing emailChanged, because the two are
+    // addressed to different readers (#337).
+    //
+    // The self-service notice says "if you did not make this change, contact
+    // us". Here somebody already did contact us — that is how the change came
+    // about — so that sentence would be addressed to a customer who has just
+    // done the thing it asks for, while the person who actually needs to act on
+    // it is the one who did nothing.
+    //
+    // This is the mail that catches a takeover *by* the recovery route, which
+    // is the risk the route carries: a stranger who talks their way past the
+    // verification gets the account, and the only person who can say otherwise
+    // is whoever still reads the old address. So it goes there, it says plainly
+    // that the account has moved, and it makes contradicting it the easy reply.
+    //
+    // The operator's stated reason is deliberately not a placeholder. It is a
+    // private note about how somebody was verified, and it can name things the
+    // customer should not be handed back.
+    required: ['newEmail'],
+    available: ['greeting', 'firstName', 'lastName', 'newEmail'],
+    defaultSubject: 'Your Redefined Designs account has moved to a new email address',
+    defaultBody:
+      '{{greeting}}\n\n' +
+      'Someone contacted us saying they could no longer get into this account, and\n' +
+      'we moved it to **{{newEmail}}** after checking their answers against the\n' +
+      'order history on it.\n\n' +
+      'If that was you, nothing more is needed — sign in at the new address and\n' +
+      'confirm it when you get the message we sent there.\n\n' +
+      '**If it was not you, reply to this email straight away.** Whoever asked for\n' +
+      'the change can now sign in to this account, and we will undo it.'
+  },
+
   cartReminder: {
     label: 'Cart reminder',
     required: ['itemList', 'cartUrl'],
diff --git a/backend/src/routes/adminCustomers.ts b/backend/src/routes/adminCustomers.ts
index d86125b..38b44a3 100755
--- a/backend/src/routes/adminCustomers.ts
+++ b/backend/src/routes/adminCustomers.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 import { Router, Request, Response } from 'express';
-import { pool } from '../db';
+import { pool, requireRow } from '../db';
 import { asyncRoute } from '../asyncRoute';
+import { isValidEmail, readId } from '../utils';
+import { sendMail } from '../mailer';
+import { renderTemplate, greeting } from '../emailTemplates';
+import { getSettings } from '../adminSettings';
+import { loadStoredTemplate } from './adminEmailTemplates';
+import { issueVerificationEmail } from '../customerVerification';
 
 /**
  * Row shapes for the reads here, kept in step with their SQL by hand.
@@ -67,6 +73,15 @@ interface IdRow {
   id: number;
 }
 
+/** One recorded admin-initiated address change (#337). */
+interface EmailChangeRow {
+  id: number;
+  previous_email: string;
+  new_email: string;
+  reason: string;
+  changed_at: Date;
+}
+
 const router = Router();
 
 router.get('/', asyncRoute(async (_req: Request, res: Response) => {
@@ -205,6 +220,173 @@ router.post('/:id/reserved/:itemId/release', asyncRoute(async (req: Request, res
   }
 }));
 
+/** The reason the operator typed, or null if it is not usable as one. */
+function readReason(value: unknown): string | null {
+  if (typeof value !== 'string') return null;
+  const trimmed = value.trim();
+  // A length floor rather than merely non-empty. The record exists to
+  // distinguish a verified recovery from a takeover afterwards, and "ok" cannot
+  // do that — but no floor high enough to be gamed is worth having either, so
+  // this asks for a sentence and trusts the person writing it.
+  if (trimmed.length < 10) return null;
+  // Bounded because it is free text going into a TEXT column from a form.
+  return trimmed.slice(0, 2000);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Moving an account to an address its owner can actually reach (#337).
+ *
+ * This is the third step of the only recovery route a customer who has lost
+ * their mailbox has, and there is deliberately no self-service equivalent: the
+ * email address is the root of trust for every other route, this shop holds no
+ * second proof of identity, and anything invented to fill that gap would be a
+ * weaker credential than the one it replaced. So the route is manual, and
+ * `docs/ops/account-recovery.md` describes the verification that has to happen
+ * before this endpoint is called.
+ *
+ * The uncomfortable part, stated plainly: this operation and an account takeover
+ * are the same operation. They differ only in whether the verification was
+ * sound, and nothing here can check that. What this can do is make the change
+ * recorded, announced, and reversible in its effects — which is what everything
+ * below is for.
+ *
+ * No current-password check, unlike the customer's own change. There is no
+ * password to ask for; the whole premise is that the person asking cannot prove
+ * anything the system can verify. The admin gate is the only authorisation, and
+ * the operator's judgement is the only verification.
+ */
+router.put('/:id/email', asyncRoute(async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
+  const id = readId(req.params.id);
+  if (id === null) return res.status(404).json({ error: 'not found' });
+
+  const { email, reason } = req.body ?? {};
+
+  const normalized = String(email ?? '').toLowerCase().trim();
+  if (!normalized || !isValidEmail(normalized)) {
+    return res.status(400).json({ error: 'a valid email is required' });
+  }
+
+  const stated = readReason(reason);
+  if (stated === null) {
+    return res.status(400).json({
+      error: 'say why this account is being moved — a sentence naming how the customer was verified'
+    });
+  }
+
+  const { rows } = await pool.query<{ id: number; email: string; first_name: string | null; last_name: string | null }>(
+    `SELECT id, email, first_name, last_name FROM customers WHERE id = $1`,
+    [id]
+  );
+  const customer = rows[0];
+  if (!customer) return res.status(404).json({ error: 'not found' });
+
+  if (normalized === customer.email) {
+    return res.status(400).json({ error: 'that is already this customer’s email address' });
+  }
+
+  const { rows: taken } = await pool.query<IdRow>(`SELECT id FROM customers WHERE email = $1`, [normalized]);
+  if (taken.length) {
+    return res.status(409).json({ error: 'another account already uses this email address' });
+  }
+
+  // Captured before the update, because it is where the notice has to go and
+  // the row will not be able to answer for it a moment from now.
+  const previousEmail = customer.email;
+
+  let passkeysRemoved = 0;
+  const client = await pool.connect();
+  try {
+    await client.query('BEGIN');
+
+    await client.query(
+      // Unverified, exactly as the self-service change leaves it. Nobody has
+      // demonstrated receiving mail at this address yet — a customer describing
+      // it over the phone is not that, and it is the commonest way this goes
+      // wrong harmlessly.
+      `UPDATE customers SET email = $1, email_verified = false WHERE id = $2`,
+      [normalized, id]
+    );
+
+    // Everything the previous holder of this account had, on the reasoning #42
+    // settled for password reset. An account being moved to a recovered address
+    // is in the same position as one being recovered by reset, and the same
+    // argument applies with more force: here somebody the system cannot
+    // identify has asked for the change, so a session or a credential surviving
+    // it would be one the new owner cannot see and cannot revoke.
+    await client.query(`DELETE FROM customer_sessions WHERE customer_id = $1`, [id]);
+    const removed = await client.query(`DELETE FROM customer_credentials WHERE customer_id = $1`, [id]);
+    passkeysRemoved = removed.rowCount ?? 0;
+    await client.query(`DELETE FROM webauthn_challenges WHERE customer_id = $1`, [id]);
+
+    // Reset links already sent are addressed to the old mailbox, which is the
+    // one this change is taking away. Leaving them live would let whoever still
+    // reads it take the account straight back.
+    await client.query(`DELETE FROM customer_tokens WHERE customer_id = $1 AND kind = 'password_reset'`, [id]);
+
+    await client.query(
+      `INSERT INTO customer_email_changes (customer_id, previous_email, new_email, reason)
+       VALUES ($1, $2, $3, $4)`,
+      [id, previousEmail, normalized, stated]
+    );
+
+    await client.query('COMMIT');
+  } catch (err) {
+    await client.query('ROLLBACK');
+    throw err;
+  } finally {
+    client.release();
+  }
+
+  // Both sends happen after the row is written, never before, so a change that
+  // failed cannot produce mail saying it succeeded.
+  await issueVerificationEmail(id, normalized, customer.first_name, customer.last_name);
+
+  // To the address being replaced, which is the whole point. If the recovery
+  // was sound this reaches nobody, and that costs nothing. If it was not, it
+  // reaches the real owner — who is the only person who can say so, and the
+  // only reason this endpoint is safe to have at all.
+  const { greetingFormat, greetingFallback } = await getSettings();
+  const notice = renderTemplate('emailChangedByAdmin', await loadStoredTemplate('emailChangedByAdmin'), {
+    greeting: greeting(customer.first_name, greetingFormat, greetingFallback, customer.last_name),
+    firstName: customer.first_name ?? '',
+    lastName: customer.last_name ?? '',
+    newEmail: normalized
+  });
+  sendMail(previousEmail, notice.subject, notice.html)
+    .catch(err => console.error('admin email change notice send failed', err));
+
+  const { rows: updated } = await pool.query<CustomerDetailRow>(
+    `SELECT id, email, nullif(btrim(concat_ws(' ', first_name, last_name)), '') AS name,
+            email_verified, marketing_consent, marketing_consent_at, created_at
+     FROM customers WHERE id = $1`,
+    [id]
+  );
+
+  res.json({
+    customer: requireRow(updated, 'the customer after the admin email change'),
+    previousEmail,
+    // Reported so the operator can tell the customer what they will have to set
+    // up again, and so a surprising number is visible at the moment it happens
+    // rather than never.
+    passkeysRemoved
+  });
+}));
+
+/** What has been done to this account's address, and why (#337). */
+router.get('/:id/email-changes', asyncRoute(async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
+  const id = readId(req.params.id);
+  if (id === null) return res.status(404).json({ error: 'not found' });
+
+  const { rows } = await pool.query<EmailChangeRow>(
+    `SELECT id, previous_email, new_email, reason, changed_at
+     FROM customer_email_changes
+     WHERE customer_id = $1
+     ORDER BY changed_at DESC`,
+    [id]
+  );
+  res.json(rows);
+}));
+
 router.get('/:id', asyncRoute(async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
   const { rows: customerRows } = await pool.query<CustomerDetailRow>(
     `SELECT id, email, nullif(btrim(concat_ws(' ', first_name, last_name)), '') AS name,
diff --git a/backend/src/routes/customers.ts b/backend/src/routes/customers.ts
index b90f4a9..fe881c7 100755
--- a/backend/src/routes/customers.ts
+++ b/backend/src/routes/customers.ts
@@ -16,46 +16,13 @@ import { passwordResetRequestLimiter, verificationResendLimiter } from '../rateL
 // Shared with passkey sign-in, so both paths establish a session identically
 // rather than in two places that merely agree today (#39).
 import { setSessionCookie, createSession } from '../customerSession';
+// Registration, a resend, the customer changing their own address and the shop
+// changing it for them all need the same three steps, and they now live in one
+// place for the same reason session creation does (#337).
+import { issueVerificationEmail } from '../customerVerification';
 
 const router = Router();
 
-// Registration, changing an address, and resending all need the same three
-// steps: supersede any outstanding link, mint a new one, send it. Written out
-// three times they would drift, and the step most likely to be forgotten is the
-// first — which is the one that matters, since an un-superseded link means an
-// older message in the inbox still verifies.
-//
-// Sending is fire-and-forget by the same rule the rest of this file follows:
-// the token row is written first, so a send that fails cannot leave a customer
-// believing a link exists that does not, only waiting for one that never came.
-async function issueVerificationEmail(
-  customerId: number,
-  email: string,
-  firstName: string | null,
-  lastName: string | null = null
-): Promise<void> {
-  await pool.query(
-    `DELETE FROM customer_tokens WHERE customer_id = $1 AND kind = 'verify_email'`,
-    [customerId]
-  );
-  const { verifyTokenHours, greetingFormat, greetingFallback } = await getSettings();
-  const token = crypto.randomBytes(24).toString('hex');
-  await pool.query(
-    `INSERT INTO customer_tokens (token, customer_id, kind, expires_at) VALUES ($1, $2, 'verify_email', $3)`,
-    [token, customerId, new Date(Date.now() + verifyTokenHours * 60 * 60 * 1000)]
-  );
-  const verifyUrl = `${process.env.PUBLIC_URL}/verify-email?token=${token}`;
-  const template = renderTemplate('verification', await loadStoredTemplate('verification'), {
-    greeting: greeting(firstName, greetingFormat, greetingFallback, lastName),
-    firstName: firstName ?? '',
-    lastName: lastName ?? '',
-    verifyUrl,
-    expiresIn: formatDuration(verifyTokenHours)
-  });
-  sendMail(email, template.subject, template.html)
-    .catch(err => console.error('verify email send failed', err));
-}
-
 // setSessionCookie and createSession now live in ../customerSession, shared with
 // passkey sign-in. #39 requires that path to establish a session identically to
 // this one, and sharing the code is what makes that true rather than intended.
diff --git a/backend/tests/integration/adminChangeCustomerEmail.integration.test.ts b/backend/tests/integration/adminChangeCustomerEmail.integration.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..daf6a6e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend/tests/integration/adminChangeCustomerEmail.integration.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,231 @@
+import request from 'supertest';
+import app from '../../src/app';
+import { pool, requireRow } from '../../src/db';
+import { createSession } from '../../src/customerSession';
+import { resetDb, closeDb } from './setup/testDb';
+
+beforeEach(async () => {
+  await resetDb();
+});
+
+afterAll(async () => {
+  await pool.end();
+  await closeDb();
+});
+
+const PASSWORD = 'supersecret123';
+const REASON = 'Named the last two items bought and the shipping address on file.';
+
+async function register(email: string): Promise<number> {
+  const res = await request(app)
+    .post('/api/customers/register')
+    .send({ firstName: 'Test', lastName: 'Customer', email, password: PASSWORD });
+  expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+  const { rows } = await pool.query<{ id: number }>(`SELECT id FROM customers WHERE email = $1`, [email]);
+  return requireRow(rows, 'the customer this test just registered').id;
+}
+
+function moveTo(id: number, email: string, reason: string = REASON) {
+  return request(app).put(`/api/admin/customers/${id}/email`).send({ email, reason });
+}
+
+/**
+ * #337. The third step of the only recovery route available to a customer who
+ * has lost their mailbox — and, structurally, the same operation as an account
+ * takeover. These tests are mostly about the second half of that sentence.
+ */
+describe('PUT /api/admin/customers/:id/email', () => {
+  it('moves the account, and leaves the new address unverified', async () => {
+    const id = await register('lost@example.com');
+
+    const res = await moveTo(id, 'Recovered@Example.com  ');
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(res.body.customer.email).toBe('recovered@example.com');
+    expect(res.body.previousEmail).toBe('lost@example.com');
+    // Nobody has demonstrated receiving mail at the new address. A customer
+    // reading it out over the phone is not that, and it is the commonest way
+    // this goes wrong harmlessly.
+    expect(res.body.customer.email_verified).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it('records the change with the reason, which is the point of the endpoint', async () => {
+    const id = await register('recorded@example.com');
+
+    await moveTo(id, 'new@example.com');
+
+    const { rows } = await pool.query<{ previous_email: string; new_email: string; reason: string }>(
+      `SELECT previous_email, new_email, reason FROM customer_email_changes WHERE customer_id = $1`,
+      [id]
+    );
+    // A hand edit to the database leaves nothing behind. This row is the only
+    // thing that distinguishes a verified recovery from a takeover afterwards.
+    expect(rows).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(rows[0]).toEqual({
+      previous_email: 'recorded@example.com',
+      new_email: 'new@example.com',
+      reason: REASON
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('refuses without a stated reason, rather than recording an empty one', async () => {
+    const id = await register('noreason@example.com');
+
+    const res = await moveTo(id, 'new@example.com', '');
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+    const { rows } = await pool.query<{ email: string }>(`SELECT email FROM customers WHERE id = $1`, [id]);
+    // Refused entirely, not performed and left unexplained.
+    expect(requireRow(rows, 'the unchanged customer').email).toBe('noreason@example.com');
+  });
+
+  it('refuses a reason too short to be one', async () => {
+    const id = await register('terse@example.com');
+
+    // "ok" cannot tell a recovery from a takeover, which is the only thing the
+    // field is for.
+    const res = await moveTo(id, 'new@example.com', 'ok');
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+  });
+
+  it('signs the customer out everywhere', async () => {
+    const id = await register('sessions@example.com');
+    const token = await createSession(id);
+    const asCustomer = () => request(app).get('/api/customers/me').set('Cookie', `rd_session=${token}`);
+    expect((await asCustomer()).status).toBe(200);
+
+    await moveTo(id, 'new@example.com');
+
+    // Somebody the system cannot identify asked for this change. A session
+    // surviving it is one the new owner cannot see and cannot revoke.
+    expect((await asCustomer()).status).toBe(401);
+  });
+
+  it('removes every passkey, and says how many', async () => {
+    const id = await register('keys@example.com');
+    await pool.query(
+      `INSERT INTO customer_credentials (customer_id, credential_id, public_key, name)
+       VALUES ($1, 'credential-a', 'not-a-real-key', 'Phone'),
+              ($1, 'credential-b', 'not-a-real-key', 'Laptop')`,
+      [id]
+    );
+
+    const res = await moveTo(id, 'new@example.com');
+
+    expect(res.body.passkeysRemoved).toBe(2);
+    const { rows } = await pool.query<{ n: number }>(
+      `SELECT count(*)::int AS n FROM customer_credentials WHERE customer_id = $1`,
+      [id]
+    );
+    expect(requireRow(rows, 'a count of credentials').n).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  it('cancels reset links already sent to the old address', async () => {
+    const id = await register('resetlink@example.com');
+    await request(app)
+      .post('/api/customers/request-password-reset')
+      .send({ email: 'resetlink@example.com' });
+    const before = await pool.query<{ n: number }>(
+      `SELECT count(*)::int AS n FROM customer_tokens WHERE customer_id = $1 AND kind = 'password_reset'`,
+      [id]
+    );
+    expect(requireRow(before.rows, 'a count of reset tokens').n).toBe(1);
+
+    await moveTo(id, 'new@example.com');
+
+    // That link is addressed to the mailbox this change is taking away. Leaving
+    // it live would let whoever still reads it take the account straight back.
+    const after = await pool.query<{ n: number }>(
+      `SELECT count(*)::int AS n FROM customer_tokens WHERE customer_id = $1 AND kind = 'password_reset'`,
+      [id]
+    );
+    expect(requireRow(after.rows, 'a count of reset tokens').n).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  it('issues a verification link to the new address', async () => {
+    const id = await register('verify@example.com');
+
+    await moveTo(id, 'new@example.com');
+
+    const { rows } = await pool.query<{ n: number }>(
+      `SELECT count(*)::int AS n FROM customer_tokens WHERE customer_id = $1 AND kind = 'verify_email'`,
+      [id]
+    );
+    // Exactly one: registration issued a link to the old address, and issuing
+    // this one has to supersede it, or a message in the mailbox being taken
+    // away could still verify.
+    expect(requireRow(rows, 'a count of verification tokens').n).toBe(1);
+  });
+
+  it('refuses an address another account already uses', async () => {
+    const id = await register('mover@example.com');
+    await register('occupied@example.com');
+
+    const res = await moveTo(id, 'occupied@example.com');
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(409);
+  });
+
+  it('refuses the address the account already has', async () => {
+    const id = await register('same@example.com');
+
+    const res = await moveTo(id, 'same@example.com');
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+  });
+
+  it('refuses a malformed address', async () => {
+    const id = await register('malformed@example.com');
+
+    const res = await moveTo(id, 'not-an-email');
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+  });
+
+  it('is a 404 for a customer who does not exist', async () => {
+    const res = await moveTo(999999, 'new@example.com');
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(404);
+  });
+
+  it('leaves the customer able to sign in with their existing password', async () => {
+    const id = await register('stillworks@example.com');
+
+    await moveTo(id, 'moved@example.com');
+
+    // The move is not a password reset. The customer knows their password —
+    // what they lost was the mailbox — so demanding a new one would add a step
+    // for no gain.
+    const login = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/customers/login')
+      .send({ email: 'moved@example.com', password: PASSWORD });
+    expect(login.status).toBe(200);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('GET /api/admin/customers/:id/email-changes', () => {
+  it('lists what has been done to this account, newest first', async () => {
+    const id = await register('history@example.com');
+    await moveTo(id, 'second@example.com', 'First recovery, verified against order history.');
+    await moveTo(id, 'third@example.com', 'Second recovery, verified against the shipping address.');
+
+    const res = await request(app).get(`/api/admin/customers/${id}/email-changes`);
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(res.body).toHaveLength(2);
+    // Newest first, because an account that has been moved twice is the one
+    // worth looking at and the most recent move is the one in question.
+    expect(res.body[0].new_email).toBe('third@example.com');
+    expect(res.body[1].new_email).toBe('second@example.com');
+  });
+
+  it('is empty for a customer whose address has never been moved', async () => {
+    const id = await register('untouched@example.com');
+
+    const res = await request(app).get(`/api/admin/customers/${id}/email-changes`);
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(res.body).toEqual([]);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/backend/tests/integration/emailTemplates.integration.test.ts b/backend/tests/integration/emailTemplates.integration.test.ts
index a665464..b9c3906 100644
--- a/backend/tests/integration/emailTemplates.integration.test.ts
+++ b/backend/tests/integration/emailTemplates.integration.test.ts
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ describe('GET /api/admin/email-templates', () => {
     expect(res.body.map((t: { key: string }) => t.key).sort()).toEqual([
       'cartReminder',
       'emailChanged',
+      'emailChangedByAdmin',
       'favoriteSold',
       'favoriteWithdrawn',
       'intakeDraft',
diff --git a/backend/tests/integration/schemaLoss.integration.test.ts b/backend/tests/integration/schemaLoss.integration.test.ts
index 6e68234..f91a73d 100644
--- a/backend/tests/integration/schemaLoss.integration.test.ts
+++ b/backend/tests/integration/schemaLoss.integration.test.ts
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ describe('when the database loses its schema', () => {
 
     // The count and a few names, not the whole list: the point is that a reader
     // can tell at a glance this is a missing schema rather than a logic bug.
-    await expect(assertSchemaPresent('in a test')).rejects.toThrow(/Missing 20 of 20 tables/);
+    await expect(assertSchemaPresent('in a test')).rejects.toThrow(/Missing 21 of 21 tables/);
     await expect(assertSchemaPresent('in a test')).rejects.toThrow(/items/);
 
     await migrate();
diff --git a/backend/tests/integration/setup/testDb.ts b/backend/tests/integration/setup/testDb.ts
index df7c7bb..7004b8e 100755
--- a/backend/tests/integration/setup/testDb.ts
+++ b/backend/tests/integration/setup/testDb.ts
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ const REQUIRED_TABLES = [
   'checkout_items',
   'checkouts',
   'customer_credentials',
+  'customer_email_changes',
   'customer_sessions',
   'customer_tokens',
   'customers',
@@ -153,7 +154,7 @@ export async function resetDb(): Promise<void> {
     await testPool.query(`
       TRUNCATE TABLE item_drafts, upload_links, orders, checkout_items, checkouts,
         shipping_addresses, cart_items, carts, customer_tokens, customer_sessions, favorites,
-        webauthn_challenges, customer_credentials,
+        webauthn_challenges, customer_credentials, customer_email_changes,
         customers, item_tags, item_images, items, tags, categories
       RESTART IDENTITY CASCADE
     `);
diff --git a/backend/tests/unit/emailTemplates.test.ts b/backend/tests/unit/emailTemplates.test.ts
index 0d9935a..e06d188 100644
--- a/backend/tests/unit/emailTemplates.test.ts
+++ b/backend/tests/unit/emailTemplates.test.ts
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ describe('greeting, built from the configured format', () => {
 });
 
 describe('every template can address the customer', () => {
-  // Not KEYS: this is an invariant of the six customer-facing templates only.
+  // Not KEYS: this is an invariant of the customer-facing templates only.
   // intakeDraft and uploadLink notify the shop and a contributor respectively,
   // not a customer with a name on file, so they are deliberately not held to
   // it — a hardcoded list is correct here rather than a staleness risk,
@@ -277,7 +277,8 @@ describe('every template can address the customer', () => {
     'favoriteSold',
     'favoriteWithdrawn',
     'cartReminder',
-    'emailChanged'
+    'emailChanged',
+    'emailChangedByAdmin'
   ];
 
   it.each(CUSTOMER_FACING_KEYS)('%s offers greeting, firstName and lastName', (key) => {
diff --git a/docs/ops/account-recovery.md b/docs/ops/account-recovery.md
index 01da6af..6abf80f 100644
--- a/docs/ops/account-recovery.md
+++ b/docs/ops/account-recovery.md
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ safety net.
 | Their password | A reset link emailed to them | Yes |
 | Their passkey or the device holding it | Signing in with their password | Yes |
 | Every passkey and their password | A reset link emailed to them | Yes |
-| Access to their email address | Nothing. See below. | No |
+| Access to their email address | Contacting the shop, which moves the account | No |
 
 The email address is the root of trust. Every self-service route above ends at
 it, and none of them can work without it.
@@ -91,12 +91,46 @@ The route is manual, and it runs through the shop owner:
 1. The customer makes contact by whatever means they have.
 2. The owner verifies them against order history — items bought, dates, the
    shipping address on file. A stranger has none of that.
-3. The owner changes the address on the account.
+3. The owner opens the customer in Admin, Customers, and uses **Move to a new
+   address** on the detail drawer.
 
-**Step 3 does not exist yet.** The admin customer screen can disable, enable and
-release reservations, but it cannot change an email address. Until it does, the
-answer to a locked-out customer is a database edit by hand. That gap is worth
-its own issue rather than being smuggled into the passkeys project, because it
-is an admin capability with its own audit and notification questions — the
-customer whose address is being replaced has to be told, exactly as the
-self-service change already tells them.
+Step 3 was added by #337. Before it existed the only answer was a database edit
+by hand, which left no record of who did it or why.
+
+### What the move does, and why
+
+Say plainly what it is: **this operation and an account takeover are the same
+operation.** They differ only in whether the verification in step 2 was sound,
+and nothing in the software can check that. Everything the move does is aimed at
+that fact.
+
+- **It asks for a written reason, and refuses without one.** The reason is
+  recorded against the account and never shown to the customer. It is the only
+  thing that distinguishes a genuine recovery from a takeover afterwards.
+- **It emails the address being replaced.** If the recovery was sound this
+  reaches nobody, which costs nothing. If it was not, it reaches the real owner,
+  who is the only person who can say so. That mail has its own wording, because
+  the self-service notice says "if you did not make this change, contact us" and
+  here somebody already did.
+- **It sends a confirmation link to the new address and marks it unverified.** A
+  customer reading an address out over the phone has not demonstrated they can
+  receive mail at it. This is the commonest way the move goes wrong harmlessly.
+- **It signs the customer out everywhere, removes every passkey, and cancels
+  outstanding reset links.** Same reasoning as a password reset, with more
+  force: somebody the system cannot identify asked for this, so a session or
+  credential surviving it is one the new owner cannot see or revoke, and a reset
+  link sitting in the old mailbox would let whoever reads it take the account
+  straight back.
+- **It does not change the password.** What the customer lost was the mailbox,
+  not the password, so demanding a new one adds a step for no gain.
+
+The history of moves on an account is shown on the same drawer, with the reasons.
+It renders nothing at all for the overwhelming majority of customers, who have
+never been moved.
+
+### What it still does not do
+
+There is no per-admin identity to record. Admin access is one shared gate secret
+in front of a single operator, so a "who" column could only ever hold a constant,
+and a constant dressed up as an identity is worse than an honest absence. If
+per-admin identity ever arrives, the record gains a column then.
diff --git a/frontend/src/admin/ChangeCustomerEmail.tsx b/frontend/src/admin/ChangeCustomerEmail.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..35f94a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/src/admin/ChangeCustomerEmail.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
+import { useState } from 'react';
+import Modal from 'antd/es/modal';
+import Form from 'antd/es/form';
+import Input from 'antd/es/input';
+import Alert from 'antd/es/alert';
+import Button from 'antd/es/button';
+import Typography from 'antd/es/typography';
+import message from 'antd/es/message';
+import { changeCustomerEmail } from './adminCustomersApi';
+
+const { Paragraph, Text } = Typography;
+
+type Props = Readonly<{
+  customerId: number;
+  currentEmail: string;
+  open: boolean;
+  onClose: () => void;
+  /** Called after a successful change, so the drawer and the table can refresh. */
+  onChanged: () => void;
+}>;
+
+/**
+ * Moving a customer's account to an address they can reach (#337).
+ *
+ * The last step of the only recovery route available to someone who has lost
+ * their mailbox. There is deliberately no self-service equivalent, because the
+ * email address is the root of trust for every other route and this shop holds
+ * no second proof of identity.
+ *
+ * The form leads with what this costs rather than burying it, because the
+ * operator is about to make a decision on someone else's behalf and the
+ * consequences land on that person, not on them.
+ */
+export default function ChangeCustomerEmail({
+  customerId,
+  currentEmail,
+  open,
+  onClose,
+  onChanged
+}: Props) {
+  const [form] = Form.useForm();
+  const [saving, setSaving] = useState(false);
+
+  async function submit(values: { email: string; reason: string }) {
+    setSaving(true);
+    try {
+      const result = await changeCustomerEmail(customerId, values.email, values.reason);
+      // Named rather than counted, because "moved to that address" is the fact
+      // the operator has to repeat back to the customer on the phone.
+      message.success(`Account moved to ${result.customer.email}`);
+      if (result.passkeysRemoved > 0) {
+        // Its own message and a long one. The customer will find their passkeys
+        // gone and needs to be told why while they are still on the line —
+        // finding out later looks like a second thing going wrong.
+        message.warning(
+          result.passkeysRemoved === 1
+            ? 'Their saved passkey was removed. They will need to set it up again.'
+            : `Their ${result.passkeysRemoved} saved passkeys were removed. They will need to set them up again.`,
+          10
+        );
+      }
+      form.resetFields();
+      onChanged();
+      onClose();
+    } catch (err) {
+      message.error((err as Error).message);
+    } finally {
+      setSaving(false);
+    }
+  }
+
+  return (
+    <Modal
+      title="Move this account to a new email address"
+      open={open}
+      onCancel={onClose}
+      footer={null}
+      destroyOnHidden
+      style={{ maxWidth: 'calc(100vw - 32px)' }}
+    >
+      <Alert
+        type="warning"
+        showIcon
+        message="Verify the customer before doing this"
+        description="This is the same operation as an account takeover, and nothing here can tell the difference. Check their answers against the order history on the account first — items bought, dates, the shipping address on file."
+        style={{ marginBottom: 16 }}
+      />
+
+      <Paragraph type="secondary">
+        Moving the account signs the customer out everywhere, removes any saved passkeys, and
+        cancels reset links already sent to <Text code>{currentEmail}</Text>. A notice goes to that
+        address, and a confirmation link goes to the new one.
+      </Paragraph>
+
+      <Form form={form} layout="vertical" onFinish={submit}>
+        <Form.Item
+          name="email"
+          label="New email address"
+          rules={[{ required: true, type: 'email', message: 'A valid email address is required' }]}
+        >
+          <Input autoComplete="off" placeholder="what they can actually reach" />
+        </Form.Item>
+        <Form.Item
+          name="reason"
+          label="How you verified them"
+          // The server requires this too, and refuses without it. Collected here
+          // as well so the refusal is not the first the operator hears of it.
+          rules={[{ required: true, min: 10, message: 'A sentence, not a word — this is the record' }]}
+          extra="Recorded against the account and never shown to the customer. This is what tells a genuine recovery from a takeover afterwards."
+        >
+          <Input.TextArea rows={3} placeholder="Named the last two items bought and the shipping address on file." />
+        </Form.Item>
+        <Form.Item style={{ marginBottom: 0 }}>
+          <Button type="primary" danger htmlType="submit" loading={saving} block>
+            Move the account
+          </Button>
+        </Form.Item>
+      </Form>
+    </Modal>
+  );
+}
diff --git a/frontend/src/admin/Customers.tsx b/frontend/src/admin/Customers.tsx
index b798480..d023954 100755
--- a/frontend/src/admin/Customers.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/admin/Customers.tsx
@@ -12,12 +12,57 @@ import message from 'antd/es/message';
 import type { ColumnsType } from 'antd/es/table';
 import {
   fetchCustomers, fetchCustomerDetail, fetchReservedItems, releaseReservedItem,
-  setCustomerDisabled,
-  CustomerSummary, CustomerDetail, ReservedItem
+  setCustomerDisabled, fetchCustomerEmailChanges,
+  CustomerSummary, CustomerDetail, ReservedItem, CustomerEmailChange
 } from './adminCustomersApi';
+import ChangeCustomerEmail from './ChangeCustomerEmail';
 
 const { Title, Text } = Typography;
 
+/**
+ * Every address this account has been moved between, and why (#337).
+ *
+ * Shown on the detail drawer rather than hidden behind a separate screen,
+ * because the moment it matters is the moment someone is looking at this
+ * customer wondering whether the account is in the right hands. Empty for
+ * almost every customer, so it renders nothing at all rather than an empty
+ * state that would appear on every drawer to say nothing happened.
+ */
+function EmailChangeHistory({ changes }: Readonly<{ changes: CustomerEmailChange[] }>) {
+  if (changes.length === 0) return null;
+  return (
+    <>
+      <Title level={5} style={{ marginTop: 24 }}>Address changes</Title>
+      <Table
+        rowKey="id"
+        size="small"
+        dataSource={changes}
+        pagination={false}
+        columns={[
+          {
+            title: 'When',
+            dataIndex: 'changed_at',
+            render: (v: string) => new Date(v).toLocaleString()
+          },
+          {
+            title: 'Moved',
+            key: 'moved',
+            render: (_, row: CustomerEmailChange) => (
+              <span style={{ fontSize: 12 }}>
+                {row.previous_email} → {row.new_email}
+              </span>
+            )
+          },
+          // The whole reason the record exists, so it is not truncated behind a
+          // tooltip. A reader deciding whether a change was legitimate needs the
+          // sentence, not the first few words of it.
+          { title: 'Reason', dataIndex: 'reason' }
+        ]}
+      />
+    </>
+  );
+}
+
 // The two halves of the disable/re-enable confirm, as components rather than
 // branches inside the handler: every piece of copy differs between them, so
 // one decision up front reads better than the same condition asked five times.
@@ -50,15 +95,32 @@ function ReEnableWarning() {
 // branches, and every one of them counted toward Customers().
 function CustomerDetailPanel({
   detail,
-  loading
-}: Readonly<{ detail: CustomerDetail | null; loading: boolean }>) {
+  loading,
+  emailChanges,
+  onChangeEmail
+}: Readonly<{
+  detail: CustomerDetail | null;
+  loading: boolean;
+  emailChanges: CustomerEmailChange[];
+  onChangeEmail: () => void;
+}>) {
   if (loading || !detail) {
     return <Spin />;
   }
   return (
     <>
       <Descriptions column={1} size="small" bordered>
-        <Descriptions.Item label="Email">{detail.customer.email}</Descriptions.Item>
+        <Descriptions.Item label="Email">
+          {detail.customer.email}
+          {/* Next to the address rather than among the account actions: this is
+              a thing done *to* this field, and it is reached by someone already
+              looking at it because a customer told them they cannot. */}
+          <div style={{ marginTop: 4 }}>
+            <Button size="small" onClick={onChangeEmail} style={{ paddingInline: 0 }} type="link">
+              Move to a new address
+            </Button>
+          </div>
+        </Descriptions.Item>
         <Descriptions.Item label="Verified">
           <Tag color={detail.customer.email_verified ? 'green' : 'default'}>
             {detail.customer.email_verified ? 'Verified' : 'Unverified'}
@@ -101,6 +163,8 @@ function CustomerDetailPanel({
           ]}
         />
       )}
+
+      <EmailChangeHistory changes={emailChanges} />
     </>
   );
 }
@@ -284,6 +348,8 @@ export default function Customers() {
   const [reservedLoading, setReservedLoading] = useState(false);
   const [releasing, setReleasing] = useState<number | null>(null);
   const [togglingId, setTogglingId] = useState<number | null>(null);
+  const [emailChanges, setEmailChanges] = useState<CustomerEmailChange[]>([]);
+  const [movingEmail, setMovingEmail] = useState(false);
 
   function load() {
     return fetchCustomers()
@@ -298,9 +364,21 @@ export default function Customers() {
   async function openDetail(id: number) {
     setDrawerOpen(true);
     setDetailLoading(true);
+    // Cleared rather than left standing: the drawer is reused for every row, and
+    // one customer's address history showing under another's name is the worst
+    // possible thing for this particular table to get wrong.
+    setEmailChanges([]);
     const data = await fetchCustomerDetail(id);
     setDetail(data);
     setDetailLoading(false);
+    // After the detail, and allowed to fail on its own. This is a rare extra
+    // rather than part of the record, so a drawer that opens without it beats
+    // one that does not open at all.
+    try {
+      setEmailChanges(await fetchCustomerEmailChanges(id));
+    } catch {
+      setEmailChanges([]);
+    }
   }
 
   async function openReserved(customer: CustomerSummary) {
@@ -428,9 +506,31 @@ export default function Customers() {
         onClose={() => { setDrawerOpen(false); setDetail(null); }}
         width={480}
       >
-        <CustomerDetailPanel detail={detail} loading={detailLoading} />
+        <CustomerDetailPanel
+          detail={detail}
+          loading={detailLoading}
+          emailChanges={emailChanges}
+          onChangeEmail={() => setMovingEmail(true)}
+        />
       </Drawer>
 
+      {/* Mounted only with a customer in hand, so the modal cannot be opened
+          against a drawer that has since been closed and emptied. */}
+      {detail && (
+        <ChangeCustomerEmail
+          customerId={detail.customer.id}
+          currentEmail={detail.customer.email}
+          open={movingEmail}
+          onClose={() => setMovingEmail(false)}
+          onChanged={() => {
+            // Both, and in this order. The drawer is what the operator is
+            // looking at, and the table behind it still shows the old address.
+            void openDetail(detail.customer.id);
+            void load();
+          }}
+        />
+      )}
+
       <Modal
         title={reservedFor ? `Items reserved by ${reservedFor.email}` : 'Reserved items'}
         open={reservedFor !== null}
diff --git a/frontend/src/admin/adminCustomersApi.ts b/frontend/src/admin/adminCustomersApi.ts
index 0bf45dd..3d13d8e 100755
--- a/frontend/src/admin/adminCustomersApi.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/admin/adminCustomersApi.ts
@@ -43,6 +43,22 @@ export interface CustomerDetail {
   orders: CustomerOrder[];
 }
 
+/** One recorded admin-initiated address change (#337). */
+export interface CustomerEmailChange {
+  id: number;
+  previous_email: string;
+  new_email: string;
+  reason: string;
+  changed_at: string;
+}
+
+export interface EmailChangeResult {
+  customer: CustomerDetail['customer'];
+  previousEmail: string;
+  /** Removed by the change, and worth telling the customer about. */
+  passkeysRemoved: number;
+}
+
 export async function fetchCustomers(): Promise<CustomerSummary[]> {
   const res = await fetch('/api/admin/customers');
   return res.json();
@@ -71,6 +87,38 @@ export async function releaseReservedItem(customerId: number, itemId: number): P
   }
 }
 
+/**
+ * Moves an account to an address its owner can reach (#337).
+ *
+ * The reason is required by the server, not merely collected by the form. This
+ * operation and an account takeover are the same operation, and the recorded
+ * reason is the only thing that tells them apart afterwards.
+ */
+export async function changeCustomerEmail(
+  customerId: number,
+  email: string,
+  reason: string
+): Promise<EmailChangeResult> {
+  const res = await fetch(`/api/admin/customers/${customerId}/email`, {
+    method: 'PUT',
+    headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
+    body: JSON.stringify({ email, reason })
+  });
+  // Reporting success for a change that failed would leave the operator telling
+  // a customer to check an inbox nothing was sent to.
+  if (!res.ok) {
+    const detail = await res.json().catch(() => ({}));
+    throw new Error(detail.error || 'failed to change the email address');
+  }
+  return res.json();
+}
+
+export async function fetchCustomerEmailChanges(customerId: number): Promise<CustomerEmailChange[]> {
+  const res = await fetch(`/api/admin/customers/${customerId}/email-changes`);
+  if (!res.ok) throw new Error('failed to load the address history');
+  return res.json();
+}
+
 export async function setCustomerDisabled(customerId: number, disabled: boolean): Promise<void> {
   const res = await fetch(`/api/admin/customers/${customerId}/${disabled ? 'disable' : 'enable'}`, {
     method: 'POST'