Professor Patricia Thane FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2006
- Subjects
- History, Sociology
Summary
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
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Claire Louise Langhamer FBA
The social and cultural history of modern Britain; the history of feeling and everyday experience; life histories, life writing and Mass-Observation.
Professor Dr Jürgen Osterhammel FBA
Global and international history since the 18th century; the Enlightenment; history and theory of historiography
