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Martin Thomas (born 1964) is a British Historian.

Thomas did both his undergraduate and doctoral studies at Oxford University, completing his D.Phil in 1991. He joined the history department at the University of the West of England, Bristol in 1992 before leaving to take up a post at the History Department of Exeter University in 2003. He is the Director of the Centre for the Study of War, State and Society.

He is considered one of the leading specialists on French Colonial History and in November 2002 was awarded a £50 000 prize from the Leverhulme Trust for the outstanding quality of his research.

Thomas has published five monographs on aspects of French foreign and colonial policy, Franco-British relations, colonial security services and the colonial state.

He has served on the editorial boards of the International History Review and Intelligence and National Security.

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