Dr Sally Crawford is co-Director of the Jacobsthal Project, investigating the life and work of the German wartime refugee archaeologist, Professor Paul Jacobsthal. In addition to her research in the Institute archives, she is the editor of the Monograph Series of the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past and a General Editor of Studies in Early Medicine

Research Interests

The development of archaeology in the twentieth century; archaeology archives; archaeology and the material culture of childhood; early medieval social structures; medieval attitudes to health, medicine and disability.

Selected Recent Publications

Books

• 2011 Early Anglo-Saxon England, Shire ‘Living Histories’ Series
• 2009 Daily Life in Anglo-Saxon England Greenwood Publications
• 1999 Childhood in Anglo-Saxon England Stroud: Sutton publishing.

Edited volumes

• 2011 co-editor, Oxford University Press Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology (with D. Hinton and H. Hamerow) Oxford: Oxford University Press
• 2010 (with Christina Lee) Bodies of Knowledge: Cultural Interpretations of Illness and Medicine in Medieval Europe. Studies in Early Medicine 1, BAR International Series 2170
• 2009 (with Helena Hamerow) Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 16, Oxford, Oxford University Committee for Archaeology
• 2008 (with Helena Hamerow) Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 15, Oxford, Oxford University Committee for Archaeology.
• 2007 (with Gillian Shepherd) Children, Childhood and Society.  IAA Interdisciplinary Series Vol. I: Studies in Archaeology, History, Literature and Art. B.A.R. International Series 1696, Oxford, Archaeopress.

Articles

• Forthcoming 2011 (with K. Ulmschneider) (trans and ed) ‘Recollections of a late 19^th century childhood in Berlin: an unpublished account by Paul Jacobsthal’ Invited paper, Childhood in the Past 4.
• Forthcoming 2011: (with K. Ulmschneider) : 'Post-war identity and scholarship: the correspondence of Paul Jacobsthal and Gero von Merhart in the Oxford Jacobsthal archive', European Journal of Archaeology, in press.
• 2011. The disposal of infants in Anglo-Saxon England: an overview of the archaeology’ in M. Lally, ed, Re-thinking the little ancestor: the archaeology of infant burial Oxford: Archaeopress; in press.
• 2011: 'The Archaeology of the Anglo-Saxon life course: overview' in Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology, S. Crawford, D. Hinton and H. Hamerow (eds) Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• 2011 ‘Baptism and infant burial in Anglo-Saxon England’. In Cochelin, I. and Smyth, K. (eds) Medieval Life-cycles: Continuities and Change. Turnhout, Brepols.
• 2011 (with Katharina Ulmschneider) ‘Paul Jacobsthal’s Early Celtic Art; his anonymous co-author, and National Socialism: new evidence from the archives. Antiquity 85, 327: 1-13
• 2010 (with Christina Lee) ‘Introduction’ in S. Crawford and C. Lee (eds) Bodies of Knowledge: Cultural Interpretations of Illness and Medicine in Medieval Europe. Studies in Early Medicine 1, BAR International Series 2170. 1-4
• 2010: with K. Ulmschneider: ‘Life between the nations – the wartime correspondence of German Refugee archaeologist Paul Jacobsthal’, British Archaeology 115, 30-33.
• 2010. ‘The nadir of Western medicine? Texts, contexts and practice in Anglo-Saxon England’, in S. Crawford and C. Lee (eds) Bodies of Knowledge: Cultural Interpretations of Illness and Medicine in Medieval Europe. Studies in Early Medicine 1, BAR International Series 2170, 41-52.
• 2010: ‘Infanticide in the medieval period’ in L. Brockliss and H. Montgomery, eds, Childhood, violence and the Western Tradition SSCIP Monograph 1, Oxbow
• 2010 ‘Our race had its childhood’: the use of childhood as a metaphor in Post-Darwinian explanations for Prehistory’ Childhood In the Past 3: 107-122.
• 2010. ‘Food, fasting and starvation: food control and body consciousness in Early Anglo-Saxon England’ in M. Henig and N. Ramsay, eds, Intersections: the archaeology and history of Christianity in England, 400-1200. Papers in Honour of Martin Biddle and Birthe Kjolbye-Biddle, 99-105. Archaeopress.
• 2010 ‘Differentiation in the Later Anglo-Saxon burial ritual on the basis of mental or physical impairment: a documentary perspective’, in J. L. Buckberry and A. K. Cherryson (eds.), Later Anglo-Saxon Burial, c.650 to 1100AD. Oxford: Oxbow, 91-100.
• 2009: ‘The Dictionary of Old English, The archaeology of ritual landscapes, and the burial ritual in Early Anglo-Saxon England’. Florilegium 26: 207-33
• 2009 'The ontology of play things: theorizing a toy stage in the “biography” of objects' in Childhood in the Past 2, 55-70
• 2009 ‘Youth before 1000’, in Clifford J. Rogers (ed) Medieval Warfare and Military Technology: An Encyclopedia, Oxford, OUP
• 2008 'Chapter 26: Settlement and Social Differentiation: 700-1100' in P. Stafford (ed.) Blackwell's Companion to Early Medieval Britian 432-445
• 2008 'Childhood studies and the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past', Childhood in the Past, 1, 5-16 (with Carenza Lewis).
• 2008'Special burials, special buildings? An Anglo-Saxon perspective on the interpretation of infant burials in association with rural settlement structures.' in Krum Bacvarov (ed) Babies Reborn; Infant/Child Burials in Pre- and Protohistory (BAR International Series s1832). Oxford: Archaeopress p 197-204.
• 2008'Archaeological resource assessment of Oxfordshire: Early Medieval period' (with A. Dodd) for The Thames Solent Research Frameworks in Archaeology: the Early Medieval Period
• 2007 ‘Companions, co-incidences or chattels? Children and their role in early Anglo-Saxon multiple burials’. In Crawford, S. and Shepherd, G. (eds) Children, Childhood and Society. IAA Interdisciplinary Series Vol. I: Studies in Archaeology, History, Literature and Art. B.A.R. International Series 1696  Oxford, Archaeopress, p.83-92.
• 2007 (with G. Shepherd) ‘Children, childhood and society: an introduction’. In Crawford, S. and Shepherd, G. (eds) Children, Childhood and Society. IAA Interdisciplinary Series Vol. I: Studies in Archaeology, History, Literature and Art.  B.A.R. International Series 1696. Oxford, Archaeopress, p.1-4.
• 2007‘Gomol is snotorest: growing old in Anglo-Saxon England.' In Henig, M. and Smith, T. J. (eds.) Collectanea Antiqua: Essays in Memory of Sonia Chadwick Hawkes. B.A.R. s1673. Oxford, Archaeopress, p. 53-60.