Life and Writings
Born in March 1937 at Hawkhurst, Kent, Kedward spent his early life in Goldthorpe (Yorkshire), Tenterden (Kent) and in Bath where he obtained a scholarship to attend Kingswood School.
He then studied at Worcester College and St Antony's College, Oxford before being recruited as a lecturer at the University of Sussex in 1962. He became Professor of History in 1991.
Kedward specialized in the history of Vichy France and of the Resistance. Oral history formed a central part of Kedward's historical approach, as he has interviewed hundreds of ordinary Frenchmen and women about their experience of being in the Resistance. He has also published a general history of 20th century France, under the title La Vie en Bleu (740 pages).
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