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http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/paper/bowles.html Review: Vichy et la chasse aux espions nazis, 1940-1942: complexités de la politique de collaboration</ref>. It was featured on the front page of France's best selling national paper ''Le Figaro'' and was one of the books of the week in the magazine ''Le Nouvel Observateur''. |
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Simon Kitson was used as an historical expert on the BBC television programme '[[Who do you think you are?]]' which traces the genealogy of the family of celebrities. Kitson appeared in the first episode of the seventh series which was broadcast in July 2009. It retraced the family history of television presenter [[Davina McCall]]. He presented the career of her great-grandfather, [[Célestin Hennion]], head of the French police who played a role in the [[Dreyfus Affair]]. |
Simon Kitson was used as an historical expert on the BBC television programme '[[Who do you think you are?]]' which traces the genealogy of the family of celebrities. Kitson appeared in the first episode of the seventh series which was broadcast in July 2009. It retraced the family history of television presenter [[Davina McCall]]. He presented the career of her great-grandfather, [[Célestin Hennion]], head of the French police who played a role in the [[Dreyfus Affair]]. |
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Revision as of 07:12, 30 October 2009
Simon Kitson is a British historian.
Born in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, Kitson was educated in Bath, doing his undergraduate studies at the University of Ulster and his post-graduate studies at the University of Sussex, under the supervision of Professor Roderick Kedward. His doctoral thesis on the Marseille Police, examined by Professors Mark Mazower and Clive Emsley, was given an award by the Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Sécurité Intérieure [1].
Kitson has worked for the Université de Paris-XII (Val de Marne) and the Open University. He lectured in French Studies at the University of Birmingham before becoming Director of Research at the University of London Institute in Paris (ULIP) [2]. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society[3] and is well known for the important web resource on Vichy France that he set up[4].
Kitson has worked extensively on the French police and counter-espionage services. He is also a specialist on Vichy France[5], 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 in 2008.
This book offered a new approach on the Vichy government's relationship with the Nazi occupying forces in France. It highlighted the complexity of these relations showing that the Vichy government arrested around 2000 agents spying for Germany and that 42 of these spies were subsequently shot. Kitson's work was not, however, an apology for the Vichy government. Its central thesis was that the government was torn between a desire to defend its sovereignty and a conviction that collaboration was a necessity. The book was widely reviewed[6]. It was featured on the front page of France's best selling national paper Le Figaro and was one of the books of the week in the magazine Le Nouvel Observateur.
Simon Kitson was used as an historical expert on the BBC television programme 'Who do you think you are?' which traces the genealogy of the family of celebrities. Kitson appeared in the first episode of the seventh series which was broadcast in July 2009. It retraced the family history of television presenter Davina McCall. He presented the career of her great-grandfather, Célestin Hennion, head of the French police who played a role in the Dreyfus Affair.
Publications
- 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
- ^ http://195.194.167.103/Submissions/Textform.asp?route=2&HESAInst=H-0110&UoA=51&Msub=Z&Form=RA5a
- ^ http://www.ulip.lon.ac.uk/staff/staff/staff-profiles/simon-kitson.html Dr Simon Kitson, ULIP
- ^ http://www.royalhistoricalsociety.org/rhsfellows.htm
- ^ http://www.library.yale.edu/rsc/history/european/siresreg.html
- ^ http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/paper/bowles.html Review: Vichy et la chasse aux espions nazis, 1940-1942: complexités de la politique de collaboration
- ^ http://www.nysun.com/article/68759?page_no=1 http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/roundtables/PDF/Thomas-KitsonRoundtable.pdf http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/roundtables/PDF/Jackson-KitsonRoundtable.pdf http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/roundtables/PDF/Kennedy-KitsonRoundtable.pdf http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/roundtables/PDF/Munholland-KitsonRoundtable.pdf http://www.lefigaro.fr/litteraire/20050113.LIT0032.html http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/books/451401/jealous-neighbourhood-watch.thtml http://fh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/22/2/247 http://www.letemps.ch/disques/critique.asp?Genre=2&Objet=3393 http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/paper/bowles.html Review: Vichy et la chasse aux espions nazis, 1940-1942: complexités de la politique de collaboration
External links
- Review: Vichy et la chasse aux espions nazis, 1940-1942: complexités de la politique de collaboration
- H-Diplo Roundtable- Thomas (introduction) to Kitson roundtable retrieved 2008-05-14
- H-France Reviews
- Review: Vichy et la chasse aux espions nazis, 1940-1942: complexités de la politique de collaboration Review: Vichy et la chasse aux espions nazis, 1940-1942: complexités de la politique de collaboration]
- [1]
- Vichy vs. the Nazis - The New York Review of Books
- The Hunt for Nazi Spies | Simon Kitson, translated by Catherine Tihanyi | Review by The Spectator
- Spy Vs. Spy - January 2, 2008 - The New York Sun
- Vichy Web
- Kitson's review of Resistance in New York Sun
Sources
- Living people
- World War II historians
- English historians
- Nazi era scholars and writers
- Social historians
- English academics
- Academics of the University of Birmingham
- Academics of the University of London Institute in Paris
- Historians of France
- Historians of Europe
- International relations scholars
- British military writers
- Historians of the Holocaust
- British military historians
- Cultural historians
- British non-fiction writers
- Fellows of the Royal Historical Society
- People from Nailsworth
- Alumni of the University of Ulster
- Alumni of the University of Sussex
- University of Paris faculty
- Academics of the University of London