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Dr Sarah Crook

Senior Lecturer

History

+44 (0) 1792 295936

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

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Rwy’n gweithio ar hanes Prydain fodern, gyda diddordebau penodol mewn ffeministiaeth, hanesion myfyrwyr, a hanes meddygaeth. Cyhoeddwyd fy monograff cyntaf, Unhappy Mothers: Women, Motherhood, and Social Change (MUP), yn 2025. Ar hyn o bryd rwy’n gweithio ar ail fonograff sy’n olrhain hanes iechyd meddwl myfyrwyr, ac rwyf hefyd wedi cyhoeddi ar hanesion ffeministiaeth, actifyddiaeth, a’r teulu.

Rwy’n gyd-olygydd y cylchgrawn Modern British History ac yn gyd-olygydd y Routledge Handbook of Contemporary British History, sydd i’w gyhoeddi yn 2026. Rwyf hefyd yn Gyfarwyddwr canolfan ymchwil rhyngddisgyblaethol y brifysgol, GENCAS.

Rwy’n cyfrannu’n rheolaidd at BBC History Magazine, ac mae fy ysgrifennu hefyd wedi ymddangos yn Times Higher Education a’r Fabian Review.

Rwyf wedi derbyn grantiau gan yr Wellcome Trust, yr AHRC, a’r ESRC. Ar hyn o bryd rwy’n Gyd-ymchwilydd ar U-Belong, prosiect aml-filiwn o bunnoedd gan y Medical Research Council sy’n cymryd ymagwedd ryngddisgyblaethol at ddeall unigrwydd myfyrwyr.

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Hanesion ffeministiaeth
Hanes pobl cwiar
Hanesion mamau a'r teulu
Hanesion prifysgolion a'u cymunedau
Hanesion iechyd meddwl a seiciatreg

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.

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Uchafbwyntiau Ymchwil

Crook, S. (n.d.) The political ecology of the ‘New’ feminism in late-1990s Britain. Gender & History
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa71739
Byrom, N., Dodd, A., Crook, S., Jackman, P., Watkins, E., & Armstrong, N. (2026). Responsibility and other dangerous ideas: who cares, who can, and who should in higher education. Higher Education Research & Development, 0, 1-17.
https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2026.2643242, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa71700
Crook, S. (2026). What Women Want: Women’s Voices, Social Research, and the Mainstreaming of Feminism in Contemporary Britain. In Sarah Crook and Sarah Kenny (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Contemporary British History Routledge
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa71665
Charnock, H., Akhtar, S., Crook, S., Hilliard, C., Linstrum, E., & Sasson, T. (2024). Modern British History—First Issue Editorial. Modern British History, 35(1), 1-6.
https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwae028, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa71114
Brewis, G., Burkett, J., & Crook, S. (2026). An Introduction to Researching Student Lives: Methodological and Theoretical Perspectives. Cultural and Social History, 23(1), 1-20.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2025.2577452, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa70695

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Crook, S. (2026). The Women’s Liberation Movement and the Gendering of Undercover Police Surveillance in 1970s Britain: the Public Inquiry as (Un)Ethical archive. History Workshop Journal, 101(Spring 2026), 238-257.
https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbag011, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa70107
Byrom, N., Dodd, A., Crook, S., Jackman, P., Watkins, E., & Armstrong, N. (2026). Responsibility and other dangerous ideas: who cares, who can, and who should in higher education. Higher Education Research & Development, 0, 1-17.
https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2026.2643242, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa71700
Brewis, G., Burkett, J., & Crook, S. (2026). An Introduction to Researching Student Lives: Methodological and Theoretical Perspectives. Cultural and Social History, 23(1), 1-20.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2025.2577452, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa70695
Priestley, M., Slack, H., Islam, M., Fuhrmann, D., Long, E., Crook, S., Foster, J., Homer, S., & Byrom, N. (2025). “No One Told You Life Was Gonna Be This Way”: A Qualitative Exploration of Friendship Expectations and Reality in University Life. Journal of Adolescence, 97(5), 1225-1235.
https://doi.org/10.1002/jad.12489, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa69289
Priestley, M. & Crook, S. (2025). Incorporating care and compassion into the neoliberal academy. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 35(35), 1-9.
https://doi.org/10.47408/jldhe.vi35.1338, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa69193
Crook, S. (2024). Using historical approaches to understand contemporary student loneliness. Higher Education Research & Development, 44(2), 338-353.
https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2024.2393122, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa67137
Charnock, H., Akhtar, S., Crook, S., Hilliard, C., Linstrum, E., & Sasson, T. (2024). Modern British History—First Issue Editorial. Modern British History, 35(1), 1-6.
https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwae028, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa71114
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
Crook, S. (n.d.) The political ecology of the ‘New’ feminism in late-1990s Britain. Gender & History
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa71739

Penodau Llyfrau

Crook, S. (2026). What Women Want: Women’s Voices, Social Research, and the Mainstreaming of Feminism in Contemporary Britain. In Sarah Crook and Sarah Kenny (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Contemporary British History Routledge
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa71665
Crook, S. (2026). Gender, Sexuality, Feminism. In Adrian Bingham (Ed.), Cambridge Companion to the Age of Thatcher Cambridge University Press
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa70639
Crook, S. (2025). Confronting Patriarchy: Humour and the British Women’s Liberation Movement, 1968-1992. In Shun-Liang Chao and Vivienne Westbrook (Ed.), Humour in Times of Confrontation, 1901 to the Present Routledge
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa63737
Crook, S. (2025). Student Voices, Expertise, and Welfare Within British Universities in the Mid-Twentieth-Century. In Caitríona Beaumont, Eve Colpus and Ruth Davidson (Ed.), Everyday Welfare in Modern British History: Experience, Expertise and Activism (pp. 267-288). Palgrave Macmillan
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64987-5_12, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa63711
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.

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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

Cynnyrch Ymchwil Arall

Crook, S. (2025). Unhappy mothers: Women, motherhood, and social change in postwar Britain
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526140135, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa68059
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526140128/

Goruchwyliaeth

Textiles and protest culture, within queer and Disabled activism, in the 1970s-2010s. (cyfredol)

PhD

Goruchwyliwr arall: Prof David Turner
Balancing Books and Babies: Student Mothers’ Experiences in English and Welsh Universities, 1960–2010 (cyfredol)

PhD

Goruchwyliwr arall: Dr Michael Bresalier
Childcare in the policy and imagination of New Labour’s England, 1994 2003 (cyfredol)

PhD

Goruchwyliwr arall: Prof David Turner
‘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 (dyfarnwyd 2025)

PhD

Goruchwyliwr arall: Dr David Anderson

Modiwlau a Addysgir

HI-M39 Managing Historical Research

During this module you will be guided through the process of formulating a viable, original, and academically sound research proposal in the discipline of History. You develop your own research project idea with the guidance and support of your supervisor. Through a combination of seminars, independent research, and supervisory meetings, you will engage with historiography, methodology, source evaluation, and research ethics. By the end of the module, you will have produced a fully developed research proposal suitable for submission to support an MA dissertation.
HI-M95 Radical Histories

This module explores and examines the history of radical protest, emancipatory struggle, and revolution in early modern and/or modern Britain, Europe, or America. This module may approach these themes through a more focussed case study of a period or may examine these themes in their more expansive histories. British, European, and American history have been punctuated by both violent and non-violent social, political, and cultural unrest as radical groups and emancipatory movements have sought to challenge the status quo. Social movements as diverse as religious dissenters during the Reformation, anti-slavery campaigners in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Civil Rights Movement in 1960s America, and LGBTQ+ activists in the late twenty and twenty-first centuries have sought reform of existing economic models and societal norms through a variety of means and left a lasting historical legacy. Social and political movements were and are contested actors in national and international politics. As part of this module, you will consider the historical context for these radical protest and emancipatory movements and the tactics used by radicals. The module will cover a range of topics exploring critical themes in different cultures and linguistic traditions. These may include, but are not limited to, the following: ¿ Revolutionary movements from the American Revolution to the Fall of Communism. ¿ Religious dissent and the Reformation ¿ Queer Activism. ¿ Feminism and the campaign for equal rights. ¿ Anti-slavery movements. ¿ Campaigns for racial, gender, and sexual equality. ¿ Civil Rights Movements
HIH122 Making History

How do historians study the past? Why do their accounts of the past differ, and why do they change over time? This module will help you to understand the various concepts, methods, and approaches that academic historians use when writing history and generating historical explanations. By the end of it, you will understand how and why professional historians disagree on many topics, and you will be equipped to evaluate competing interpretations of the same past events and processes. The module also trains you in the fundamental skills required to study history as an undergraduate, and gives you an opportunity to learn more about the interests and expertise of the history staff you¿ll be working with at Swansea. It will help you make the transition from being taught history at school or college to studying history at university, and it will introduce you to the many different kinds of history you can explore in the course of your degree.
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.
HIH284 Disunited Kingdom? Class, Race, Gender and Social Division in Twentieth-Century Britain

This module examines the dynamics and structure of British society over the course of the 20th century. Despite radical social, political and economic changes, the idea of a British nation, a British people and a British way of life remained powerful and persistent. Yet beneath a veneer of social and and national unity were profound divisions and inequalities. This module explores how categories such as gender, class, race, region, nation and religion evolved and persisted. In doing so, the module considers what causes social change and the extent to which there was anything resembling British society at all. The module will relate these historical contexts to the present day. It asks how history can be used to understand contemporary social divisions and seeks to empower and enable students to think critically about how Britain and `Britishness¿ are constituted in contemporary society.
HIH3300 History Dissertation

The History dissertation is a free-standing, 40-credit module that runs across both semesters of Level Three. Candidates conduct research upon a subject of their choice, devised in consultation with a member of staff teaching for the degrees in History, and concerning a topic that falls within staff research and teaching interests.
HIH3377 A History of Sex and Gender

This module explores the history of sex and gender across a multitude of sites since the Medieval period, examining how and why understandings and ideologies changed. This module looks at the history of sex and gender from a social and cultural perspective, drawing out connections with class and race. It explores how ideas of masculinity and femininity have changed over time, how gender has impacted on social, economic and political life, and how dominant ideologies of gender relate to the experience of men¿s and women¿s daily lives. The module will also analyse changing attitudes towards sexuality and demonstrate how modern sexual identities are the product of historical processes rather than fixed and unchanging. Students will be introduced to the key historiographical debates around the history of gender and to the core challenges that drive historians while researching these vital themes.

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Cynnyrch Ymchwil Arall

Goruchwyliaeth

Textiles and protest culture, within queer and Disabled activism, in the 1970s-2010s. (cyfredol)

Balancing Books and Babies: Student Mothers’ Experiences in English and Welsh Universities, 1960–2010 (cyfredol)

Childcare in the policy and imagination of New Labour’s England, 1994 2003 (cyfredol)

‘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 (dyfarnwyd 2025)

Modiwlau a Addysgir

HI-M39 Managing Historical Research

HI-M95 Radical Histories

HIH122 Making History

HIH124 Britain and the World 1800 to 2000

HIH237 The Practice of History

HIH284 Disunited Kingdom? Class, Race, Gender and Social Division in Twentieth-Century Britain

HIH3300 History Dissertation

HIH3377 A History of Sex and Gender