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]
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]