Keith Thomas (historian)

Sir Keith Vivian Thomas

He is married to Valerie, Lady Thomas, a graduate of Somerville College, and has two children.

He is a supporter of Humanists UK, an organisation promoting secular humanism.^[4]

Honours

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1970 (Vice-President 1980–84) and a Fellow of the British Academy in 1979 (President 1993–97). In 1983, he was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1993, he was elected to the Academia Europaea. He is also a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.

He is an Honorary Fellow of Balliol (1984) and St John's (1986), and Corpus Christi Colleges, Oxford, and of Cardiff University (1995). He has been awarded honorary doctorates by University of Kent (DLitt 1983), University of Wales (DLitt 1987), Williams College (LLD 1988), University of Sheffield (LittD 1992), University of Cambridge (LittD 1995), University of Hull (DLitt 1995), University of Leicester (DLitt 1996), University of Sussex (DLitt 1996), Oglethorpe University (LLD 1996), and University of Warwick (DLitt 1998).

In the 1988

Portraits of Sir Keith Thomas hang at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and the British Academy and National Portrait Gallery, London.^[7][8]

Publications

Works authored

• "The Social Origins of Hobbes's Thought", Hobbes Studies, ed. K.C. Brown (Oxford : Basil Blackwell, 1965), 185–236
• 'History and Anthropology', Past & Present 24 (1963), 3–24
• Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971; New York, Scribner 1971; Harmondsworth; London: Penguin, 1973; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978; London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997)
• Rule and Misrule in the Schools of Early Modern England (Reading: University of Reading, 1976)
• Age and Authority in Early Modern England (London: British Academy, 1976)
• The Perception of the Past in Early Modern England: The Creighton Trust Lecture 1983, Delivered before the University of London on Monday 21 November 1983 (London: University of London, 1983)
• Man and the Natural World: Changing Attitudes in England, 1500–1800
  (London: Allen Lane, 1983; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984) (first American edition published as Man and the Natural World: A History of the Modern Sensibility (New York: Pantheon, 1983).
• History and Literature: the Ernest Hughes Memorial Lecture Delivered at the College on 7 March 1988 (Swansea: University College of Swansea, 1988)
• "Ways of Doing Cultural History", in Rik Sanders (ed.), Balans en perspectief van de Nederlandse cultuurgeschiedenis (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1991)
• Changing Conceptions of National Biography: The Oxford DNB in Historical Perspective (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)
• The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)
  ISBN 978-0-19-924723-3^[9]
• "The Great Fight Over the Enlightenment," The New York Review 3 April 2014
• In Pursuit of Civility: Manners and Civilization in Early Modern England (London: Yale University Press, 2018)

Works edited

• Great Political Thinkers (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992)
• The Oxford Book of Work (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999)

Works jointly edited

• (ed. with
  Christopher Hill
  (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978)
• (ed. with Andrew Adonis) Roy Jenkins: A Retrospective (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)

References

Further reading

• Barry, Jonathan. "Introduction: Keith Thomas and the problem of witchcraft" in Jonathan Barry et al. eds., Witchcraft in early modern Europe: Studies in Culture and Belief (1996) pp. 1–46.

External links

Wikiquote has quotations related to Keith Thomas (historian).

• "Diary – LRB"
• Alan Macfarlane, People who have influenced me most: Keith Thomas
• Interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 5 September 2009 (video)
• British Academy Fellowship
• Debrett's People of Today (12th edn, London: Debrett's Peerage, 1999), p. 1933

Academic offices
Preceded by Kenneth Dover	President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford 1986–2000	Succeeded by Tim Lankester