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Dr Sarah Crook

Uwch-ddarlithydd

History

s.r.e.crook@abertawe.ac.uk

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Rwy'n gweithio ar hanes Prydain fodern ac mae gennyf ddiddordeb penodol mewn hanes menywod, hanesion myfyrwyr a hanes meddygaeth. Mae fy monograff cyntaf, Postnatal depression in postwar Britain: Women, motherhood, and social change (MUP), yn archwilio sut daeth heriau bod yn fam i'r amlwg ar ôl yr Ail Ryfel Byd. Mae fy ymchwil bresennol, ar gyfer fy ail fonograff, Student Mental Health in Modern Britain, yn archwilio hanes iechyd meddwl myfyrwyr.

Rwy'n un o gyd-olygyddion y cyfnodolyn Twentieth Century British History. Ar y cyd â Sarah Kenny, rwy'n cyd-olygu Routledge Handbook of Contemporary British History ar hyn o bryd. Mae'r gwaith hwn dan gontract a chaiff ei gyhoeddi yn 2026. Fi yw cyfarwyddwr GENCAS (Canolfan Ymchwil i Rywedd a Diwylliant mewn Cymdeithas), canolfan ymchwil ryngddisgyblaethol ym Mhrifysgol Abertawe.

Rwy'n cyfrannu'n rheolaidd at BBC History Magazine, ac rwyf hefyd wedi ysgrifennu i Times Higher Education a Fabian Review.

Rwyf wedi cael grantiau gan Ymddiriedolaeth Wellcome, y Cyngor Ymchwil i'r Celfyddydau a'r Dyniaethau (AHRC) a'r Cyngor Ymchwil Economaidd a Chymdeithasol (ESRC). Ar hyn o bryd, rwy'n un o gyd-ymchwilwyr U-Belong, prosiect gwerth miliynau o bunnoedd gan y Cyngor Ymchwil Feddygol sy'n mabwysiadu ymagwedd ryngddisgyblaethol at ddeall unigrwydd myfyrwyr.

Cyn cael fy mhenodi'n ddarlithydd yn Abertawe, fi oedd Cymrawd Iau Syr Christopher Cox yn y Coleg Newydd ym Mhrifysgol Rhydychen. Cwblheais fy PhD yn Ysgol y Frenhines Mair yn Llundain ar ôl ennill MSt mewn Astudiaethau Menywod yng Ngholeg Keble, Rhydychen, a gradd israddedig ym Mhrifysgol Sussex.

Y tu allan i'r byd academaidd, rwy'n cweryla â'm plant bach ac yn pobi (yn wael). Byddaf ar absenoldeb mamolaeth yng ngwanwyn 2024.

Meysydd Arbenigedd

Hanesion ffeministiaeth
Hanes pobl cwiar
Hanesion mamau a'r teulu
Hanesion prifysgolion a'u cymunedau
Hanesion iechyd meddwl a seiciatreg
Hanesion gweithredu ym Mhrydain wedi'r rhyfel

Uchafbwyntiau Gyrfa

Diddordebau Addysgu

Hanes gweithredu a mudiadau protest
Hanesion ffeministiaeth
Hanesion rhyw a rhywedd
Hanesion iechyd meddwl a seiciatreg
Hanesion y 1960au, y 1970au a'r 1980au ym Mhrydain

Yn 2023-2024, rwy'n mentora Ryan Tristram-Walmsley, Cymrawd Ymchwil Ôl-ddoethurol y Cyngor Ymchwil Economaidd a Chymdeithasol, a byddwn yn falch o gefnogi ceisiadau ôl-ddoethurol eraill.

Byddai'n bleser gennyf drafod gwaith goruchwylio doethurol ar feysydd sy'n ymwneud â hanes prifysgolion a phobl ifanc, hanes ffeministiaeth, neu hanes seiciatreg.

Ymchwil

Cyhoeddiadau

Uchafbwyntiau Ymchwil

Crook, S. (2025). Using Historical Approaches to Understand Contemporary Student Loneliness. Higher Education Research and Development
https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2024.2393122, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa67137
Crook, S. (2024). Student Voices, Expertise, and Welfare within British Universities. In Caitríona Beaumont, Eve Colpus and Ruth Davidson (Ed.), Everyday Welfare in Modern British History: Experiences, Expertise and Activism Palgrave
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa63738
Crook, S. (2024). Confronting Patriarchy: Humour and the British Women’s Liberation Movement, 1968-1992. In Shun-liang Chao, Alvin Dahn, and Vivienne Westbrook (Ed.), Humour in Times of Confrontations, 1900 to the Present Routledge
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa63737
Crook, S. (2022). Looking Back, Thinking Forward: Grassroots Activism and Modern Histories. In Sarah Crook and Charlie Jeffries (Ed.), Resist, Organize, Build: Feminist and Queer Activism in Britain and the United States during the Long 1980s (pp. 331-334). SUNY Press
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60545
https://sunypress.edu/Books/R/Resist-Organize-Build
Crook, S. & Jeffries, C. (2022). Introduction: Thinking through and beyond the 1980s. Resist, Organize, Build: Feminist and Queer Activism in Britain and the United States during the Long 1980s (pp. 1-30). SUNY Press
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60543
https://sunypress.edu/Books/R/Resist-Organize-Build

Holl Ymchwil

Erthyglau Cylchgronau

Crook, S. (2025). Using Historical Approaches to Understand Contemporary Student Loneliness. Higher Education Research and Development
https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2024.2393122, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa67137
Crook, S. (2020). Parenting during the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020: academia, labour and care work. Women's History Review, 29(7), 1226-1238.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2020.1807690, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55126
Crook, S. (2020). ‘A disastrous blow’: psychiatric risk, social indicators and medical authority in abortion reform in post-war Britain. Medical Humanities, 46(2), 124-134.
https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2018-011561, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa50555
Crook, S. (2020). Historicising the “Crisis” in Undergraduate Mental Health: British Universities and Student Mental Illness, 1944–1968. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 75(2), 193-220.
https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrz060, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa53205
Crook, S. (2020). The Labour Party, Feminism and Maureen Colquhoun's Scandals in 1970s Britain. Contemporary British History, 34(1), 71-94.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2019.1624166, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa50788
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2019.1624166
Kasstan, B. & Crook, S. (2018). Reproductive Rebellions in Britain and the Republic of Ireland: Contemporary and Past Abortion Activism and Alternative Sites of Care. Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics, 2(2)
https://doi.org/10.20897/femenc/3885, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa45062
http://www.lectitopublishing.nl/download/reproductive-rebellions-in-britain-and-the-republic-of-ireland-contemporary-and-past-abortion-3885.pdf
Crook, S. (2018). The women’s liberation movement, activism and therapy at the grassroots, 1968–1985. Women's History Review, 27(7), 1152-1168.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2018.1450611, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa50676
Crook, S., Allen, S., & Crook, S. (2014). In Conversation with the Women's Liberation Movement: Intergenerational Histories of Second Wave Feminism, British Library, 12 Oct. 2013. History Workshop Journal, 77(1), 339-342.
https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbt045, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa52588
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbt045

Penodau Llyfrau

Crook, S. (2024). Student Voices, Expertise, and Welfare within British Universities. In Caitríona Beaumont, Eve Colpus and Ruth Davidson (Ed.), Everyday Welfare in Modern British History: Experiences, Expertise and Activism Palgrave
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa63738
Crook, S. (2024). Confronting Patriarchy: Humour and the British Women’s Liberation Movement, 1968-1992. In Shun-liang Chao, Alvin Dahn, and Vivienne Westbrook (Ed.), Humour in Times of Confrontations, 1900 to the Present Routledge
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa63737
Crook, S. (2022). Looking Back, Thinking Forward: Grassroots Activism and Modern Histories. In Sarah Crook and Charlie Jeffries (Ed.), Resist, Organize, Build: Feminist and Queer Activism in Britain and the United States during the Long 1980s (pp. 331-334). SUNY Press
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60545
https://sunypress.edu/Books/R/Resist-Organize-Build
Crook, S. & Jeffries, C. (2022). Introduction: Thinking through and beyond the 1980s. Resist, Organize, Build: Feminist and Queer Activism in Britain and the United States during the Long 1980s (pp. 1-30). SUNY Press
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60543
https://sunypress.edu/Books/R/Resist-Organize-Build
Crook, S. (2022). Patients, Practitioners and Protestors: feminist sources and approaches in the history of psychiatry. In Chris Millard and Jennifer Wallis (Ed.), Sources in the History of Psychiatry, from 1800 to the Present (pp. 181-196). Routledge
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60136
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003087694-12/patients-practitioners-protestors-feminist-sources-approaches-history-psychiatry-sarah-crook
Crook, S. (2020). Writing about Mothering and Childcare in the British Women’s Liberation Movement, 1970–85. In Laurel Forster and Joanne Hollows (Ed.), Women’s Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1940s–2000s (pp. 351-365). Edinburgh University Press
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa54509
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-women-039-s-periodicals-and-print-culture-in-britain-1940s-2000s-hb.html#:~:text=Women's%20Periodicals%20and%20Print%20Culture%20in%20Britain%2C%201940s%2D2000s%20draws,well%20as%20digital%20magazine%20formats.

Llyfrau wedi'u Golygu

Crook, S. & Jeffries, C. (Eds.). (2022). Resist, Organize, Build: Feminist and Queer Activism in Britain and the United States during the Long 1980s. SUNY Press.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60542
https://sunypress.edu/Books/R/Resist-Organize-Build

Goruchwyliaeth

‘A future without a past’? Social Mobility in South Wales between 1945 and 1999. (cyfredol)

PhD

Goruchwyliwr arall: Prof Martin Johnes
Women and Sexual Deviancy in England 1770-1830 (cyfredol)

PhD

Goruchwyliwr arall: Prof David Turner
The Resilient Workforce of Oklahoma’s Archivists (cyfredol)

PhD

Goruchwyliwr arall: Dr David Anderson

Modiwlau a Addysgir

HI-M39 Research Folder

This module is designed to help students to identify a dissertation topic appropriate to their interests and expertise, and to tackle the problems of methodology, develop the research techniques, and undertake the project planning which are the necessary preliminaries to researching and writing a 20,000 word dissertation.
HI-M82 Feminism and Queer Activism in Postwar Britain

This module will explore feminist and queer activism in Britain in the years following the Second World War. Focusing on two liberation movements ¿ the women¿s liberation movement and the gay liberation movement ¿ it will look at the key areas around which activists mobilised, including the family, work, and sexuality. It will look at the ideas and key debates that shaped activism in the late twentieth century, encouraging students to investigate why feminist and gay activism emerged in the postwar period; to understand the strategies that feminist and LGBTQ movements used to agitate for change; and to think about how class and race have intersected with liberation campaigns. The module concentrates on Britain but draws out global connections, putting British movements in a broader context. Following two initial sessions on sources and methodologies, the module is structured into three parts. In the first sessions, students are introduced to the key developments of the 1950s and the 1960s and are encouraged to think critically about the organising concepts of radical histories. In the ensuing weeks, students explore the drivers, debates, and legacies of the women¿s liberation movement. Following this, we investigate the gay liberation movement and AIDS activism. Finally, the module concludes with a reflection on feminist and LGBTQ visibility in the 1990s. Students are encouraged to make use of the rich digitised and archival source material available on these topics, including the collection on the women¿s liberation movement housed at the West Glamorgan Archive as well as the materials available at the Miners¿ Library.
HIH124 Britain and the World 1800 to 2000

This module will provide an overview of the history of British politics, society, culture, and the economy from c. 1800 to the present, from a national and international perspective. The lectures and seminars for this module will give students the opportunity to engage closely with events, processes, and people - both male and female, from diverse ethnic backgrounds - who contributed to the making of the modern British state and society, and who defined Britain¿s relationship with the wider world. We will discuss the transformative impact of warfare, Empire and colonialism, industrial and technological change. We will also consider the significance of race, class, and gender, and how they relate to national sentiment and social and political emancipation movements in Britain and beyond.
HIH237 The Practice of History

The purpose of the module is to encourage you to think more deeply about how historians work and, in particular, about how we as historians can locate and use primary historical sources effectively as a means of interpreting and understanding the past. During the module we will learn about the survival of historical evidence, how it is organised and made accessible to historians to undertake their research, and how to effectively locate and interpret it in your studies. We will consider how the process of doing historical research changes over time, in particular with the impact of recent developments like digitization. At the core of the module will be the work you undertake with others in your seminar group using a range of primary sources which your seminar tutor will introduce to you. As part of the module assessment you will also undertake your own primary source based research project using items from these collections. The module is designed strengthen your analytical skills and to help prepare you for the more extensive uses of primary evidence which you will encounter in final year special subjects and dissertation.
WS-M95 War, Identity and Society

This module is the companion module to WS-M94. It takes a pluri-disciplinary approach to understanding the impacts of war on society and vice-versa. The module evaluates the ways in which conflict changes and reshapes society and analyses the problems of war, its representations and its social outcomes. 'War' in thus not viewed solely in terms of military history, but rather through a broader context of changing social, economic and cultural trends both as a motor for change and as part of those broader changes. The module is taught over a ten week period. The weekly two hour sessions include at least an hour of seminar style `teaching¿, to make sure that there is ample time for discussions, questions, student presentations, etc. Hence, it is expected of all students to read the compulsory reading for each session beforehand, so that meaningful discussions can take place. .

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Llyfrau wedi'u Golygu

Goruchwyliaeth

‘A future without a past’? Social Mobility in South Wales between 1945 and 1999. (cyfredol)

Women and Sexual Deviancy in England 1770-1830 (cyfredol)

The Resilient Workforce of Oklahoma’s Archivists (cyfredol)

Modiwlau a Addysgir

HI-M39 Research Folder

HI-M82 Feminism and Queer Activism in Postwar Britain

HIH124 Britain and the World 1800 to 2000

HIH237 The Practice of History

WS-M95 War, Identity and Society