Keith Thomas#
| Membership Number: | 1491 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1993 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/person/sir-keith-thomas |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2000 Professor Emeritus
- 2001 - 2015 Distinguished Fellow, All Souls College
- 1988 - 2000 Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford
- 1986 - 2000 President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
- 1986 Professor of Modern History, Reader (1978 - 1985), Fellow (and Tutor 1957- 1985) of St John’s College, Oxford (1957 - 1986)
- 1978 - 1985 Reader in modern history in the University of Oxford
- 1957 Fellow of St John's College
- 1955 - 1957 Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
- 1955 Senior Scholar, St Antony’s College, Oxford (1955)
- 1952 - 1955 Brackenbury Scholar, Balliol College, Oxford
Fields of Scholarship
- Social and cultural history of early modern England
Honours and Awards
- 1970 Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (Vice-President 1980–84)
- 1979 Fellow of the British Academy (President 1993–97)
- 1983 Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales
- 1984 Honorary Fellow of Balliol
- 1986 Honorary Fellow of St John's
- Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi Colleges, Oxford
- 1995 Honorary Fellow of Cardiff University
- 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)
- 1988 Knight Bachelor at Queen's Birthday Honours
- 1991 Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
- 2015 Honorary Fellow, All Souls College
- 2020 Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) for services to the study of history in the 2020 New Year Honours
