He was a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, from 1955 until 1957, when he was elected Fellow of St John's College. He graduated from the University of Oxford with a first class Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1955 as per tradition, his BA was later promoted to a Master of Arts (MA Oxon). Having been awarded the Brackenbury Scholarship, he studied modern history at Balliol College, Oxford. He was educated at Barry County Grammar School, a state grammar school in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan. Thomas was born on 2 January 1933 in Wick, Glamorgan, Wales. From 1986 to 2000, he was president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He is best known as the author of Religion and the Decline of Magic and Man and the Natural World. Sir Keith Vivian Thomas CH FBA FRHistS FLSW (born 2 January 1933) is a Welsh historian of the early modern world based at Oxford University.
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