Patricia Marcia Crawford

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. 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). 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. ==Selected publications==

• 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 ==

Crawford's first book, Denzil Holles 1598–1680, won the 1979 Whitfield Prize. and Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2003. == References ==