Professor Patricia Thane FBA

History, Social History, Women's History, Political History, Economic History, History of Britain.

Elected 2006

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2006
Sections: Modern History from 1850, Sociology, Demography and Social Statistics
Website: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/professor-pat-thane

Pat Thane is Professor in Contemporary British History at King's College London. She was previously Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Sussex, 1994-2001 and Leverhulme Professor of Contemporary British History at the Institute of Historical Research, 2001-2010. She studied History at the University of Oxford. Her PhD was supervised by Brian Abel-Smith at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has been a Visiting Professor at Nanjing University, China, and in Australia, Japan, Taiwan, Chile, New York.

Current post

Kings College London Professor in Contemporary British History

University of London Emeritus Professor

Past appointments

King's College London Research Professor in Contemporary British History

2010 - 2020

Institute of Historical Research, University of London Leverhulme Professor of Contemporary British History

2001 - 2010

University of Sussex Professor of Contemporary History

1994 - 2001

Goldsmiths, University of London Assistant Lecturer to Reader in Social History

1967 - 1994

Publications

Divided Kingdom. A History of Britain, 1900 to the Present

Pat Thane - Published in 2018 by Cambridge University Press

Sinners? Scroungers? Unmarried Motherhood in Twentieth Century England

Pat Thane and Tanya Evans - Published in 2012 by Oxford University Press

Britain's Pensions Crisis. History and Policy

Edited by Pat Thane, Hugh Pemberton and Noel Whiteside - Published in 2006 by Oxford University Press

The Long History of Old Age

Pat Thane and Lynn Botelho - Published in 2005

Old Age in English History

Pat Thane - Published in 2000 by Oxford University Press

Foundations of the Welfare State

Pat Thane - Published in 1996 by Routledge

How Nancy Astor became the first woman to sit as a Member of Parliament

How poverty in modern Britain echoes the past

Related Fellows

Professor Paul Boyle FBA

Population and health geography; family, gender and migration; health inequalities; migration and health; disease clustering; longitudinal and administrative data

Professor Michael Anderson FBA

Social, economic and geographic histories of Scotland, the UK, and Western Europe since the 18th century. Social economy of households and families

Professor George Brown FBA

Sociology

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Professor Patricia Thane FBA

Current post

Kings College London Professor in Contemporary British History

University of London Emeritus Professor

Past appointments

King's College London Research Professor in Contemporary British History

2010 - 2020

Institute of Historical Research, University of London Leverhulme Professor of Contemporary British History

2001 - 2010

University of Sussex Professor of Contemporary History

1994 - 2001

Goldsmiths, University of London Assistant Lecturer to Reader in Social History

1967 - 1994

Publications

Divided Kingdom. A History of Britain, 1900 to the Present

Pat Thane - Published in 2018 by Cambridge University Press

Sinners? Scroungers? Unmarried Motherhood in Twentieth Century England

Pat Thane and Tanya Evans - Published in 2012 by Oxford University Press

Britain's Pensions Crisis. History and Policy

Edited by Pat Thane, Hugh Pemberton and Noel Whiteside - Published in 2006 by Oxford University Press

The Long History of Old Age

Pat Thane and Lynn Botelho - Published in 2005

Old Age in English History

Pat Thane - Published in 2000 by Oxford University Press

Foundations of the Welfare State

Pat Thane - Published in 1996 by Routledge

How Nancy Astor became the first woman to sit as a Member of Parliament

How poverty in modern Britain echoes the past

Related Fellows

Professor Paul Boyle FBA

Professor Michael Anderson FBA

Professor George Brown FBA

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Professor Patricia Thane FBA

Current post

Kings College London Professor in Contemporary British History

University of London Emeritus Professor

Past appointments

King's College London Research Professor in Contemporary British History

2010 - 2020

Institute of Historical Research, University of London Leverhulme Professor of Contemporary British History

2001 - 2010

University of Sussex Professor of Contemporary History

1994 - 2001

Goldsmiths, University of London Assistant Lecturer to Reader in Social History

1967 - 1994

Publications

Divided Kingdom. A History of Britain, 1900 to the Present

Pat Thane - Published in 2018 by Cambridge University Press

Sinners? Scroungers? Unmarried Motherhood in Twentieth Century England

Pat Thane and Tanya Evans - Published in 2012 by Oxford University Press

Britain's Pensions Crisis. History and Policy

Edited by Pat Thane, Hugh Pemberton and Noel Whiteside - Published in 2006 by Oxford University Press

The Long History of Old Age

Pat Thane and Lynn Botelho - Published in 2005

Old Age in English History

Pat Thane - Published in 2000 by Oxford University Press

Foundations of the Welfare State

Pat Thane - Published in 1996 by Routledge

How Nancy Astor became the first woman to sit as a Member of Parliament

How poverty in modern Britain echoes the past

Related Fellows

Professor Paul Boyle FBA

Professor Michael Anderson FBA

Professor George Brown FBA

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