Pat Thane

Pat Thane is Professor of Contemporary History at King's College London. She was the Leverhulme Professor^[1] of Contemporary British History in 1998–2001 at the Institute of Historical Research.^[2]

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).^[3][4]

Selected publications

• Thane, Pat; Evans, Tanya (2012), Sinners? Scroungers? Saints? : unmarried motherhood in twentieth-century England, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0199578508
• Thane, Pat; Breitenbach, Esther (2010), Women and citizenship in Britain and Ireland in the twentieth century : what difference did the vote make?, Continuum, ISBN 1441149007
• Thane, Pat (2005), The long history of old age, Thames & Hudson, ISBN 9780500251263
• Thane, Pat (1982), The foundations of the welfare state, Social policy in modern Britain, Longman, ISBN 9780582295155

References

1. "Grant schemes - The Leverhulme Trust". Leverhulme.ac.uk. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
2. "Professor Pat Thane". KCL. 2013-05-15. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
3. "History & Policy: who we are". Historyandpolicy.org. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
4. "Organisation – Nordic Centre of Excellence NordWel". Blogs.helsinki.fi. Retrieved 2014-01-25.