Keith Thomas (historian)
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Sir Keith Thomas FBA FRHistS |
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| President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford | |||||||||||||
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In office 1986–2000 |
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| Preceded by | Sir Kenneth Dover | ||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Sir Tim Lankester | ||||||||||||
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Keith Vivian Thomas 2 January 1933 Wick, Glamorgan, Wales |
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| Nationality | British | ||||||||||||
| Spouse(s) | Valerie Thomas | ||||||||||||
| Children | Two | ||||||||||||
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| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub discipline | Social and cultural history of early modern England |
| Institutions |
University of Oxford All Souls College, Oxford St John's College, Oxford Corpus Christi College, Oxford |
Sir Keith Vivian Thomas, FBA, FRHistS (born 2 January 1933) is a British historian of the early modern world based at Oxford University. He is best known as the author of Religion and the Decline of Magic and Man and the Natural World. From 1986 and 2000, he was President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
Thomas was born on 2 January 1933 in Wick, Glamorgan, Wales. He was educated at Barry County Grammar School, a state grammar school in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan. Having been awarded the Brackenbury Scholarship, he studied modern history at Balliol College, Oxford. He graduated from the University of Oxford with a first class Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1955; as per tradition, his BA was later promoted to a Master of Arts (MA Oxon).
He was a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford from 1955 until 1957, when he was elected Fellow of St John's College. He was Reader in Modern History in the University of Oxford 1978–85, and Professor of Modern History in 1986, in which year he became President of Corpus Christi College. He retired in 2000, at the statutory age of 67, and the following year he was once more elected Fellow of All Souls College. He served for some time as Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University and a Delegate to the University Press. He was a consultant editor to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
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