Keith Thomas (historian) - Publications

Publications

Works authored

• '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)
• 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 0-19-924723-4; ISBN 978-0-19-924723-3

Works edited

• The Oxford book of work (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999)

Works jointly edited

• (ed. with Donald Pennington) Puritans and revolutionaries: essays in seventeenth-century history presented to Christopher Hill (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978)
• (ed. with Andrew Adonis) Roy Jenkins: a retrospective (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)