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.^[1] She was the Leverhulme Professor^[2] 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.^[3][4]

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).^[5][6]

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^[7]
• Thane, Pat (1982), The foundations of the welfare state, Social policy in modern Britain, Longman, ISBN 9780582295155