| Keith Thomas AKA Keith Vivian Thomas Born: 2-Jan-1933
Birthplace: Wick, Glamorgan, Wales
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Historian Nationality: Wales
Executive summary: Religion and the Decline of Magic High School: Barry County Grammar School
University: Balliol College, Oxford University
Fellow: All Souls College, Oxford University (1955-57)
Fellow: St. John's College, Oxford University
Reader: Modern History, Oxford University (1978-85)
Professor: Modern History, Oxford University (1986-2000)
President: Corpus Christi College, Oxford University (1986-2000)
Fellow: All Souls College, Oxford University (2000-)
Academia Europaea 1993
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
British Academy 1979 (as President, 1993-97)
Learned Society of Wales
National Gallery London Trustee (1991-98)
Royal Historical Society 1970
Knighthood 1988
Wolfson Prize 1972 for Religion and the Decline of Magic
Author of books:
Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England (1971, history)
Man and the Natural World: Changing Attitudes in England, 1500-1800 (1983, history)
Changing Conceptions of National Biography: The Oxford DNB in Historical Perspective (2005, criticism)
The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England (2009, social studies)
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