Dr Sally Crawford

Research Associate

Research Interests

History of British archaeology in the 19th and 20th century with a special interest in:
- Stuart and Peggy Piggott
- Paul Jacobsthal
- Christopher Hawkes
- O.G.S. Crawford
Archaeological archives
Lantern slide and glass plates, particularly the relationship between place, the viewer and the viewed, and evolution of landscapes visible through photographic images.
The archaeology of childhood
Anglo-Saxon archaeology
- Early Anglo-Saxon life course, including age, sickness and social representations
- Early Anglo-Saxon mortuary rituals

Research Profile

Co-Director, HEIR (Historic Environment Image Resource)

Fell Fund Researcher in Visual and Material Culture Studies

Primary Geographic Area

Northern Europe

Current Activities/Projects

Monograph Series General Editor: Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past. http://www.sscip.org.uk/
Co-Director, HEIR (Historic Environment Image Resource): creating an interdisciplinary research database providing information on changing monuments, landscapes, and environments, based on Oxford University’s early lantern slide and glass plate collections. http://archaeologyarchivesoxford.wordpress.com/heir-project/. Funded by the Reva and David Logan Foundation, the Fell Fund, and Citizen Science Alliance (£250,000).
Researcher: Scoping Survey of Visual and Material Cultures archives in the Humanities and Social Science Divisions. Funded by the Fell Fund.
Series General Editor: Studies in Early Medicine. http://disease.nottingham.ac.uk/doku.php?id=studies_in_early_medicine
Co-Director, Jacobsthal Project: investigating the life and work of the German wartime refugee archaeologist Professor Paul Jacobsthal: https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2012-01-13-exhibition-remembers-wartime-refugees. Funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Reva and David Logan Foundation (£50,000).

Exhibitions

Persecution and Survival: A Wartime Refugee’s Story, The Gallery, Oxford Town Hall & Museum, 15 January to 10 March 2012

Associated Research Projects

Publications