Patricia Marcia Crawford

Patricia Marcia Crawford FRHistS, FAHA, FASSA (31 January 1941 – 28 April 2009) was an Australian historian of women.[1][2] She featured in a conference, London's Women Historians, held at the Institute of Historical Research in 2017.[3]

Life edit

Patricia Marcia Clarke was born in Sydney on 31 January 1941, first child of Enid Fussell and Jim Clarke, who was a marine surveyor. The family moved to Melbourne, where Crawford graduated from the University of Melbourne with a BA (Hons) in 1961.[1][4] The following year she married anthropologist Ian Crawford and the couple moved to Perth where she enrolled in a PhD (1971) at the University of Western Australia (UWA).[5] In 1972 she became a part-time lecturer at UWA, was made a permanent staff member in 1976 and was appointed professor of history in 1995.[5]

Selected publications edit

  • Denzil Holles 1598–1680: a study of his political career
  • "Attitudes to Menstruation in Seventeenth-century England", Past and Present, 1981.
  • Women and Religion in England, 1500–1720
  • Blood, Bodies and Families in Early Modern England
  • Parents of Poor Children in England 1580–1800

Awards and recognition edit

Crawford's first book, Denzil Holles 1598–1680, won the 1979 Whitfield Prize.[5]

In 1981 Crawford was elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (UK),[5] Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences in 1993[6] and Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2003.[7]

References edit

  1. ^ a b Mendelson, Sara (1 March 2011). "Patricia M. Crawford, 1941–2009". History Workshop Journal. 71 (1): 289–292. doi:10.1093/hwj/dbr011 – via academic.oup.com.
  2. ^ Gowing, Laura (25 May 2009). "Obituary: Patricia Crawford". The Guardian – via www.theguardian.com.
  3. ^ London's Women Historians. Laura Carter & Alana Harris, Institute of Historical Research, 2017. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
  4. ^ "Patricia Crawford: Celebrated scholar and mentor". Australian Women's History Network. 13 March 2017. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
  5. ^ a b c d Foley, Susan; Sowerwine, Charles. "Crawford, Patricia Marcia". The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
  6. ^ "Academy Fellow – Professor Patricia Crawford AM, FASSA". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
  7. ^ Zika, Charles (2009). "Patricia (Trish) Marcia Crawford (1941–2009)" (PDF). Australian Academy of the Humanities, Proceedings 34.