Elizabeth Crawford (historian)

Elizabeth Crawford OBE is an English author, independent historian and dealer in suffrage ephemera. She has been called the "Suffrage Detective" and has been appointed OBE for services to education, with special reference to the women’s suffrage movement.

Biography

Crawford studied History at the University of Exeter, graduating in 1967.[3]

Crawford has been called the "Suffrage Detective"[4] and has written several "key works"[5] on the history of the suffrage movement in the United Kingdom. These include The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, Art and Suffrage: A Biographical Dictionary of Suffrage Artists, and The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland: A Regional Survey. She has also researched the suffragette 1911 United Kingdom census boycotters.[6]

The Reference Guide, in particular, has been termed "indispensable."[7] British historian Martin Pugh has called the book, which includes 400 biographies and 800 entries on organisations, a "magnificent research tool and a great stimulus to professionals and amateurs alike."[8]

Crawford has written articles, educational content and blog posts for institutions including BBC History,[9] the British Library,[10] Gresham College,[11] and Oxford University Press.[12] Crawford has also contributed to radio broadcasts covering the suffrage movement, including on BBC Radio 4's Women's Hour.[13]

In 2018, Crawford was appointed OBE for services to education, with special reference to the women’s suffrage movement.[3][14] She is a patron of The Mary Clarke Statue Appeal.[14]

References

  1. ^ "Campaigning For The Vote: Kate Frye and 'Black Friday', November 1910". Woman and her Sphere. 20 May 2013. Retrieved 2023-02-23.
  2. ^ "Women and the Vote: From the Parliamentary Collections". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2025-04-14.
  3. ^ a b "Alumni and supporters". University of Exeter. Retrieved 2025-04-13.
  4. ^ Duffus, Jane (9 May 2018). "Interview: Elizabeth Crawford – The Suffrage Detective". The Heroine Collective. Retrieved 2023-02-23.
  5. ^ "Elizabeth Crawford". University of Chicago Press. Retrieved 2023-02-23.
  6. ^ Liddington, Jill; Crawford, Elizabeth (1 March 2011). "'Women do not count, neither shall they be counted': Suffrage, Citizenship and the Battle for the 1911 Census". History Workshop Journal. 71 (1): 98–127. doi:10.1093/hwj/dbq064. ISSN 1363-3554.
  7. ^ deVries, Jacqueline (2006). "Review of The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland: A Regional Survey". Victorian Studies. 49 (1): 145–146. doi:10.2979/VIC.2006.49.1.145. ISSN 0042-5222. JSTOR 4618974.
  8. ^ PUGH, MARTIN (2000). "Review of The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866–1928". History. 85 (278): 367. ISSN 0018-2648. JSTOR 24425004.
  9. ^ "British History in depth: Women: From Abolition to the Vote". BBC History. Retrieved 2025-04-13.
  10. ^ "Emily Wilding Davison: Perpetuating The Memory". blogs.bl.uk. Retrieved 2025-04-13.
  11. ^ "Elizabeth Crawford". Gresham College. Retrieved 2025-04-13.
  12. ^ "Why is Emily Wilding Davison remembered as the first suffragette martyr?". OUPblog. 4 June 2013. Retrieved 2025-04-13.
  13. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Suffragette Mary Richardson who slashed the Rokeby Venus; Criminalising Forced Marriage; Page 3 and the free Sun". BBC. Retrieved 2025-04-13.
  14. ^ a b "Eminent Historian Elizabeth Crawford O.B.E. joins Charity as Patron". Mary Clarke Statue Appeal. 15 March 2020. Retrieved 2025-04-13.
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