Pat Thane

Pat Thane is a professor of Contemporary History at King's College London as well as a general historian. She teaches on the MA in Politics and Contemporary History: modules on Welfare and the State in Britain 1900–1945, 1945–present and contributes to modules on politics and society since c. 1900. She was the Leverhulme Professor of Contemporary British History in 1998–2001 at the Institute of Historical Research and a professor at the University of Sussex from 1994 until 2001.

Thane is the UK Government's Chief Scientific Adviser to the Department for Work and Pensions on research capabilities and is a member of the international reference group on the Nordic welfare state for the Nordic Centre of Excellence (NordWel).

Selected publications

• Thane, Pat; Evans, Tanya (2012), Sinners? Scroungers? Saints? : unmarried motherhood in twentieth-century England, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0199578504
• Thane, Pat; Breitenbach, Esther (2010), Women and citizenship in Britain and Ireland in the twentieth century : what difference did the vote make?, Continuum, ISBN 978-1441149008
• Thane, Pat (2005), The long history of old age, Thames & Hudson, ISBN 9780500251263
• Johnson, Paul (1994), 20th century britain - economic, social and cultural change, contributed in sections 'The social, economic and political status of women' and 'Women since 1945', Longman, ISBN 0582228174
• Thane, Pat (1982), The foundations of the welfare state, Social policy in modern Britain, Longman, ISBN 9780582295155