Sir Keith Thomas
MA, FBA
Distinguished Fellow since 2001
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Background
- Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford (from 1988 to 2000)
- President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford (from 1986 to 2000)
- Professor of Modern History (1986); Reader (1978-85), Fellow (and Tutor from 1957 to 1985) of St John’s College, Oxford (from 1957 to 1986)
- Examination Fellow, All Souls College (from 1955 to 1957)
- Senior Scholar, St Antony’s College, Oxford (1955)
- Brackenbury Scholar, Balliol College, Oxford (from 1952 to 1955)
Research interests
- Social and cultural history of early modern England
Selected publications
- The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England (2009)
- Changing Conceptions of National Biography (2005)
- (ed.), The Oxford Book of Work (1999)
- Man and the Natural World (1983)
- (ed. with Donald Pennington), Puritans and Revolutionaries (1978)
- Religion and the Decline of Magic (1971)
Other professional memberships and roles
- Hon. Vice-President, Royal Historical Society (from 2001)
- Chairman, Advisory Council, Warburg Institute (from 2000 to 2008)
- Trustee, British Museum (from 1999 to 2008)
- Chairman, British Library Advisory Committee for Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (from 1997 to 2002)
- President, British Academy (from 1993 to 1997)
- Member, Academia Europaea (from 1993)
- Trustee, National Gallery (from 1991 to 1998)
- Member, Reviewing Committee on Export of Works of Art (from 1989 to 1992)
- Member, ESRC (from 1985 to 1990)
- Delegate (1980-2000) and Chairman of Finance Committee (1988-2000), Oxford University Press
- Foreign Hon. Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Hon. Member, Japan Academy
- Fellow, Learned Society of Wales
- Hon. DLitt Columbia, Kent, Wales, Hull, Leicester, London, Sussex, Warwick
- Hon. LittD Sheffield, Cambridge
- Hon. LLD Williams, Oglethorpe
- Hon. Fellow of Balliol, Corpus Christi and St John’s Colleges, Oxford, University of Cardiff, and Warburg Institute, University of London
Further details
Chairman, Supervisory Committee, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (1992-2004); General Editor, Past Masters (OUP, 1979-2000); Oxford Studies in Social History (1980– )