Sir Keith Thomas FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Emeritus Fellow
- Year elected
- 1979
- Subjects
- History
- Sections
- Early Modern History to 1850
Summary
Sir Keith Thomas was born in 1933 and educated at Barry County Grammar School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read Modern History. He has spent all his academic career in Oxford, as a senior scholar of St. Antony's (1955), a Prize Fellow of All Souls (1955-57), Fellow and Tutor of St John's (1957-85), Reader (1978-85), ad hominem Professor (1986) and President of Corpus Christi (1986-2000). He returned to All Souls as a Distinguished Fellow (2001-15). He is now an Honorary Fellow of All Souls, Balliol, Corpus Christi and St John's. Elected FBA in 1979, he was President of the British Academy (1993-97). He is a member of the Academia Europaea, a Founding Member of the Learned Society of Wales, a Foreign Hon. Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an Hon. Member of the Japan Academy. He has held visiting appointments at Princeton, Stanford, Columbia and Louisiana State Universities. In 2020, he was appointed a Companion of Honour for services to the study of History. He has published essays on many different aspects of the social and cultural history of early modern England. His books include Religion and the Decline of Magic (1971), Man and the Natural World (1983), The Oxford Book of Work (1999) and The Ends of Life (2009).
Current post
Honorary Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford
Past appointments
All Souls College University of Oxford Fellow
2001 -
Corpus Christi College University of Oxford President
1986 - 2000
University of Oxford Reader, Professor in Modern History
1978 - 1986
St John's College University of Oxford Fellow and Tutor
1957 - 1985
All Souls College University of Oxford Fellow
1955 - 1957
Publications
The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfillment in Early Modern England
Keith Thomas - Published in 2009 by Oxford University Press
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Mr Robin Briggs FBA
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