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'''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 {{Circa|1900}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/politicaleconomy/People/academic/Thane.aspx |title=Professor Pat Thane |publisher=KCL |date=2016-08-10 |accessdate=2017-05-01}}</ref> She was the Leverhulme Professor<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/funding/grant_schemes.cfm |title=Grant schemes - The Leverhulme Trust |publisher=Leverhulme.ac.uk |date= |accessdate=2014-01-25}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/politicaleconomy/People/academic/Thane.aspx |title = Department of Political Economy &#124; King's College London}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/ich/people/thane/index.aspx |title=Professor Pat Thane |publisher=KCL |date=2013-05-15 |accessdate=2014-01-25}}</ref>
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).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historyandpolicy.org/whoweare.html |title=History & Policy: who we are |publisher=Historyandpolicy.org |date= |accessdate=2014-01-25}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.helsinki.fi/nord-wel/organisation/ |title=Organisation – Nordic Centre of Excellence NordWel |publisher=Blogs.helsinki.fi |date= 2007-11-14|accessdate=2014-01-25}}</ref>
==Selected publications==
*{{citation |last1=Thane |first1=Pat |year=2012 |title=Sinners? Scroungers? Saints? : unmarried motherhood in twentieth-century England |last2=Evans |first2=Tanya |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=978-0199578504}}
*{{citation |last1=Thane |first1=Pat |year=2010 |title=Women and citizenship in Britain and Ireland in the twentieth century : what difference did the vote make? |last2=Breitenbach |first2=Esther |publisher=Continuum |isbn=978-1441149008}}
*{{citation |last=Thane |first=Pat |year=2005 |title=The long history of old age |publisher=Thames & Hudson |isbn=9780500251263}}
*{{citation |last=Johnson |first=Paul |year=1994 |title=20th century britain - economic, social and cultural change |publisher=Longman |series=contributed in sections 'The social, economic and political status of women' and 'Women since 1945' |isbn=0582228174 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/twentiethcentury00paul_0 }}<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D2JnAAAAMAAJ&q=pat+thane |title=Twentieth-century Britain: Economic, Social, and Cultural Change |accessdate=2016-01-28|isbn=9780582228177 |last1=Johnson |first1=Paul |year=1994 |publisher=Longman }}</ref>
*{{citation |last=Thane |first=Pat |year=1982 |title=The foundations of the welfare state |publisher=Longman |series=Social policy in modern Britain |isbn=9780582295155}}
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