Simon Kitson (born 1967) is a British historian.
Kitson did his undergraduate studies at the
University of Ulster
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and his post-graduate studies at the
University of Sussex
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, under the supervision of
Roderick Kedward Roderick Kedward may refer to:
* Rev Roderick Kedward (politician)
Rev. Roderick Morris Kedward (14 September 1881 – 5 March 1937) was a Wesleyan minister and a Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom.
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. His doctoral thesis on the Marseille Police, was examined by
Mark Mazower
Mark Mazower (; born 20 February 1958) is a British historian. His expertise are Greece, the Balkans and, more generally, 20th-century Europe. He is Ira D. Wallach Professor of History at Columbia University in New York City
Early life
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and
Clive Emsley
Clive Emsley (4 August 1944 – 5 October 2020) was a British historian and criminologist. He was a research director and lecturer at the Open University.
Biography
After his first degree at the University of York, where he was one of the init ...
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He lectured in French Studies at the
University of Birmingham
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before becoming director of research at the
University of London Institute in Paris
The University of London Institute in Paris (ULIP; ) is a central academic body of the University of London located in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. It is currently the only British university institute in continental Europe.
History
The in ...
(ULIP). Dr Kitson left ULIP in April 2011 and became a senior research fellow at the
Institute of Historical Research
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. Kitson is currently an Associate Professor of French Studies at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is a
Fellow
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of the
Royal Historical Society
The Royal Historical Society, founded in 1868, is a learned society of the United Kingdom which advances scholarly studies of history.
Origins
The society was founded and received its royal charter in 1868. Until 1872 it was known as the Histori ...
and a fellow of the
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
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. He is also known for the web resource on Vichy France that he set up and for being the founder of the Facebook group 'Simon Kitson's France: News and Discussion'. He is British Correspondent of the French history journal ''Vingtième Siècle''. and is on the editorial board of the ''Journal of War and Culture Studies''.
Kitson has worked extensively on the French police and counter-espionage services. He is also a specialist on
Vichy France
Vichy France (french: Régime de Vichy; 10 July 1940 – 9 August 1944), officially the French State ('), was the fascist French state headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II. Officially independent, but with half of its ter ...
, on which he published ''Vichy et la Chasse aux Espions Nazis'' with Autrement of Paris in 2005, ''The Hunt for Nazi Spies'' with the
University of Chicago Press
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in 2008. and ''Police and Politics in Marseille, 1936–1945'' with Brill of Amsterdam in 2014.
Publications
;Books
*''Police and Politics in Marseille, 1936–1945'', Amsterdam, Brill, 2014
* ''The Hunt for Nazi Spies'', Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2008
* ''Vichy et la chasse aux espions nazis'', Paris, Autrement, 2005
* (with Hanna Diamond) ''Vichy, Resistance, Liberation'' (essays in honour of Rod Kedward), Oxford, Berg, 2005
* 'The Marseille Police in their context from Popular Front to Liberation', ''D Phil thesis'', University of Sussex, 1995
References
;Sources
*
Simon Kitson, ULIPQueen Mary Experts' Guide
External links
Kitson's Vichy Web*
Simon Kitson, translated by Catherine Tihanyi , Review by The Spectatorbr>
Spy Vs. Spy – January 2, 2008 – The New York Sun
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1960s births
Living people
Historians of World War II
English historians
Historians of Nazism
Social historians
Historians of France
Historians of Europe
International relations scholars
British military writers
Historians of the Holocaust
British military historians
Fellows of the Royal Historical Society
Historians of Vichy France
University of Auckland faculty
People educated at King Edward's School, Bath
British male writers
Alumni of Ulster University
Male non-fiction writers