Keith Thomas is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is the author The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfillment in Early Modern England.
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The Empires of Elliott
February 21, 2013
History in the Making
by J.H. Elliott
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The Truth About Oliver Cromwell
November 8, 2012
God’s Instruments: Political Conduct in the England of Oliver Cromwell
by Blair Worden
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Fighting over History
December 3, 2009
What Was History?: The Art of History in Early Modern Europe
by Anthony Grafton
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A Highly Paradoxical Historian
April 12, 2007
Letters from Oxford: Hugh Trevor-Roper to Bernard Berenson edited by Richard Davenport-Hines
Europe’s Physician: The Various Life of Sir Theodore de Mayerne
by Hugh Trevor-Roper
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Speak of the Devil
April 27, 2006
Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy
by Malcolm Gaskill
Remember Remember: A Cultural History of Guy Fawkes Day
by James Sharpe
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Antipodean Historians
October 20, 2005
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Politics: Looking for Liberty
May 26, 2005
Visions of Politics
by Quentin Skinner
Republicanism: A Shared European Heritage
edited by Martin van Gelderen and Quentin Skinner
Quentin Skinner: History, Politics, Rhetoric
by Kari Palonen
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When the Lid Came off England
May 27, 2004
Britain in Revolution, 1625–1660
by Austin Woolrych
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Heroes of History
March 13, 2003
Bring Out Your Dead: The Past as Revelation
by Anthony Grafton
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A Vanished World
November 7, 2002
The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village
by Eamon Duffy
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‘A Modern Socrates’
October 4, 2001
Peiresc’s Europe: Learning and Virtue in the Seventeenth Century
by Peter N. Miller
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Wrapping It Up
December 21, 2000
The Gift in Sixteenth-Century France
by Natalie Zemon Davis
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God in the Computer
December 17, 1998
The Religion of Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention
by David F. Noble
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The Big Cake
September 21, 1995
Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama
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As You Like It
September 22, 1994
Queering the Renaissance edited by Jonathan Goldberg
Sodometries: Renaissance Texts, Modern Sexualities by Jonathan Goldberg
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The View from the Keyhole
November 4, 1993
Uncertain Unions: Marriage in England 16601753 by Lawrence Stone
Broken Lives: Separation and Divorce in England 16601857 by Lawrence Stone
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‘The London Hanged’
May 13, 1993
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How Britain Made It
November 19, 1992
Britons: Forging the Nation 17071837 by Linda Colley
The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century by Peter Linebaugh
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Divorce à la Mode
March 7, 1991
Road to Divorce: England 1530-1987 by Lawrence Stone
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The Brilliant Misfit
June 14, 1990
Lewis Namier by Linda Colley
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Behind Closed Doors
November 9, 1989
A History of Private Life Volume III: Passions of the Renaissance edited by Roger Chartier, translated by Arthur Goldhammer
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Just Say Yes
November 24, 1988
Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America by Edmund S. Morgan
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A Neo-Victorian Romance
May 28, 1987
Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians by Gertrude Himmelfarb
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Politics as Language
February 27, 1986
Virtue, Commerce, and History: Essays on Political Thought and History, Chiefly in the Eighteenth Century by J.G.A. Pocock
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The Long March
November 22, 1984
Civilization and Capitalism, 15th18th Century. Volume 3: The Perspective of the World by Fernand Braudel, translated by Siân Reynolds
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‘Moveable Feasts’
July 19, 1984
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Excelsior!
May 10, 1984
The Discoverers by Daniel J. Boorstin
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Self-Realization
September 29, 1983
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Back to Utopia
May 12, 1983
Gender by Ivan Illich
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A Working Girl
June 25, 1981
Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism by Marina Warner
Joan of Arc: The Legend and the Reality by Frances Gies
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The Beast in Man
April 30, 1981
Animals’ Rights Considered in Relation to Social Progress Pennsylvania 18411 by Henry S. Salt, revised edition with a preface by Peter Singer
Reckoning with the Beast: Animals, Pain, and Humanity in the Victorian Mind by James Turner
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Rescuing Homosexual History
December 4, 1980
Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century by John Boswell
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Politics Recaptured
May 17, 1979
The Foundations of Modern Political Thought Volume One: The Renaissance Volume Two: The Age of Reformation by Quentin Skinner
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The Wizard of Oc
October 12, 1978
Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, translated by Barbara Bray
Life in Renaissance France by Lucien Febvre, edited and translated by Marian Rothstein
The Community of the Village: A Study in the History of the Family and Village Life in Fourteenth-Century England by Edward Britton
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The Rise of the Fork
March 9, 1978
The Civilizing Process: The History of Manners by Norbert Elias, translated by Edmund Jephcott
Human Figurations: Essays for Norbert Elias edited by Peter R. Gleichmann, edited by Johan Goudsblom, edited by Hermann Korte
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Conspicuous Grandeur
January 26, 1978
The Courts of Europe: Politics, Patronage and Royalty 1400-1800 edited by A.G. Dickens
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The Virgin in History
November 11, 1976
Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary
by Marina Warner
The Virgin by Geoffrey Ashe
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Epidemic Man
September 30, 1976
Plagues and Peoples by William H. McNeill
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Jumbo History
April 17, 1975
Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism
by Perry Anderson
Lineages of the Absolutist State
by Perry Anderson
The Modern World-System: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century by Immanuel Wallerstein
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Satan in Salem
August 8, 1974
Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft by Paul Boyer, by Stephen Nissenbaum
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Historian of Everything
December 13, 1973
Capitalism and Material Life 1400-1800 by Fernand Braudel, translated by Miriam Kochan
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The Ranters
November 30, 1972
The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution by Christopher Hill