Post:	Emeritus Professor
Location:	Arts A A117
Email:	H.R.Kedward@sussex.ac.uk

Biography

Educated at Kingswood School, Bath, and at Worcester College Oxford, he went on to graduate work in Oxford at St Antony's College and was appointed to the School of European Studies at Sussex in 1962. Early books were on the Dreyfus Affair, on Fascism in Western Europe and on The Anarchists, but he then went on to specialise in the history of Resistance in France, doing oral and archival work in what was once the southern zone of Occupied France. Books on Resistance in Vichy France and In Search of the Maquis were both translated into French, and in 1989 he was honoured by the French government as Officier de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques. He organised two international conferences at Sussex in 1984 and 1994 on Occupied France, which led to edited books and articles, and his book on the Maquis was awarded the Prix Philippe Viannay - Défense de la France. He was Chair of the History Subject Group in the mid-1990s, and ran Graduate Affairs for several years. In 2005 he was presented with a Festschrift volume by his doctoral students and colleagues, Vichy, Resistance, Liberation: New Perspectives on Wartime France. His most recent book is the Penguin history of 20th Century France, entitled La Vie en Bleu: France and the French since 1900. He lives in Brighton and is married to Carol, with two children Joshua and Jessica. In retirement, he continues to go regularly to France and is working on Structures of Resistance and Historical Encounters with French Regions.