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]

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]

• 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

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]

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