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Simon Kitson is a British historian

Historian

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Kitson did his undergraduate studies at the University of Ulster

University of Ulster

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and his post-graduate studies at the University of Sussex

University of Sussex

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, under the supervision of Professor Roderick Kedward

Roderick Kedward (historian)

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. His doctoral thesis on the Marseille Police, examined by Professors Mark Mazower

Mark Mazower

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and Clive Emsley

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He lectured in French Studies at the University of Birmingham

University of Birmingham

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before becoming Director of Research at the University of London Institute in Paris

University of London Institute in Paris

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(ULIP). Dr Kitson left ULIP in April 2011 and became a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research

Institute of Historical Research

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. He is a Fellow

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of the Royal Historical Society

Royal Historical Society

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and is known for the web resource on Vichy France that he set up.

Kitson has worked extensively on the French police and counter-espionage services. He is also a specialist on Vichy France

Vichy France

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, on which he published Vichy et la Chasse aux Espions Nazis with Autrement of Paris in 2005 and The Hunt for Nazi Spies with the University of Chicago Press

University of Chicago Press

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in 2008.

Publications

Books

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

Articles/Book Chapters

Kitson, S, 'The Marseille Police and the German Forced Labour Draft’ French History, May 2009
Kitson, S, ‘Vichy à la chasse aux agents allemands’, in Sébastien Laurent (ed), Renseignement politique, politique du renseignement et politisation du renseignement, Bordeaux, PUB, 2009.
Kitson, S, ‘Creating a nation of Resisters? Improving French self-image, 1944-1946’ in RIERA, Monica & SCHAFFER, Gavin (eds), The Lasting War: Society and Identity in Britain, France and Germany after 1945, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2008.
Jackson, P & Kitson, S, ‘The paradoxes of foreign policy in Vichy France’ in ADELMAN, Jonathan (ed), Hitler and his Allies, London, Routledge, October 2007.
Kitson, S, ‘Police and politics in Marseille, 1936-1938’, European History Quarterly, Volume 37, No. 1, January 2007, pp 81–108.
Kitson, S, ‘Spying for Germany in Vichy France, 1940-1942’, History Today, January 2006, pp 38–48.
Kitson, S, (with Hanna Diamond) ‘One historian and his occupation: Rod Kedward’ in DIAMOND, Hanna & KITSON, Simon (eds), Vichy , Resistance, Liberation, Oxford , Berg, 2005, pp 1–14.
Kitson, S, ‘From enthusiasm to disenchantment. The French Police and the Vichy regime’, Contemporary European History, Volume 11, Issue number 3, August 2002, pp 371–390.
Kitson, S, ‘Police & Public Service’, History Today, August 2002, pp 32–34.
Kitson, S, ‘French Police, German Troops and the destruction of the old districts of Marseille, 1943’, in KNAFLA, Louis, Policing and war in Europe, Greenwood Press, 2002, pp 133–145.
Kitson, S, ‘Marseille à l’épreuve du politique de 1936 à 1939’, in BERLIERE, Jean-Marc & PESCHANSKI, Denis (eds), La police en France des années trente aux années soixante, Paris, Documentation Française, 2000, pp 43–58.
Kitson, S, ‘L'évolution de la Résistance dans la police marseillaise’, in GUILLON, Jean-Marie & MENCHERINI, Robert (eds), La Résistance et les Européens du Sud, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2000, pp 257–270.
Kitson, S, ‘Arresting Nazi spies in Vichy France, 1940-1942’, Intelligence & National Security, Spring 2000, pp 80–120.
Kitson, S, ‘Les policiers marseillais et le Front Populaire’, Vingtième Siècle, January 2000, pp 47–58.
Kitson, S, ‘The Police & the Clichy Massacre, March 1937’, in BESSEL, Richard & EMSLEY, Clive (eds), 'Patterns of Provocation', Oxford, Berghahn, 2000, pp 29–40.
Kitson, S, ‘Rehabilitation and Frustration: The Experience of Marseille Police Officers after the Liberation’, Journal of Contemporary History, Volume 33, No 4, 1998, pp 621–38.
Kitson, S, ‘The police and the deportation of Jews from the Bouches-du-Rhône in August and September 1942’, Modern and Contemporary France, Vol 5, N° 3, August 1997, pp 309–319.
Kitson, S, ‘Police and public in France : an overview’ in PERRY, Sheila & CROSS, Maire, (eds) Voices of France, London , Pinter, 1997, pp 187–200.
Kitson, S, ‘The police in the Liberation of Paris’ in KEDWARD, H.R & WOOD, Nancy, (eds) The Liberation of France . Image and Event, Oxford , Berg, 1995, pp 43–57.
Kitson, S, ‘La reconstitution de la police à Marseille, août 1944 - février 1945’, Provence Historique, fascicule 178, October 1994, pp 497–509.

Dictionary entries

Kitson, S, ‘Historical overview: France, 1939-1968’, 5000 word entry in MURRAY, Christopher John (ed), Encyclopaedia of modern French thought, London, Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004.

Articles on web-sites

Kitson, S, Bousquet, Touvier and Papon: Three Vichy personalities

http://www.port.ac.uk/special/france1815to2003/chapter8/interviews/filetodownload,27676,en.pdf

Kitson, S, The French police under the Vichy regime

http://www.port.ac.uk/special/france1815to2003/chapter8/interviews/filetodownload,18931,en.pdf

External links

Sources

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