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Christopher Kent fonds
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1713, 1941-2023 (inclusive); 1962-2010 (predominant). (Creation)
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6.25 m of textual material; 124 photographs; 17 negatives; 2 CD-ROMS; 1 VHS; 2 floppy discs.
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Christopher Kent was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He earned a B.A. (1963) and a M.A. (1964) from the University of Toronto, and a D.Phil. from University of Sussex (1969). He started his teaching career at the University of Prince Edward Island where he taught for two years before moving to the University of Saskatchewan where he taught from 1970 until his retirement. During his time at the University of Saskatchewan he served as the Head of the Department of History (1987-90); editor of the Canadian Journal of History (1977-83, 1992-93, 1995-98, 2011-2012, and co-editor 2000-2003); member of the advisory board for Victorian Studies, Victorian Periodicals Review, and Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice; president of Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada (VSAWC) 1986-88, as well as director and vice-president (1999-2001) of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP). He retired in 2009 and was granted emeritus status.
Elizabeth and Cecil Kent had three children: Janet, Christopher, and Cecelia(Cece). Cecil Charles Kent was born in 1906 and worked as a patent lawyer and died in 1997. Elizabeth Kent passed away in 1992.
Cece married Paul Bowden and they had two children, Andrea and Stephen. Janet married John Bush and had one child named Matthew.
Christopher Kent married Angela in 1968 and they divorced in 1974, but remained friends until Angela’s death in 2006. Christopher later married Mary Marino in and they had one child, Andrew.
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Donated to the University Archives by Christopher Kent in 2022.
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This fonds contains materials relating to the career of Christopher Kent, professor and head of the history department at the University of Saskatchewan. This fonds documents his time as a professor teaching various history classes, his work in supervising masters and phd students in their thesis writing, his work with the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals and the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, as well as his time as head of the history department including his work with the Canadian Journal of History. Also included are some materials from his undergrad studies at the University of Toronto – mainly syllabus and other handouts, with some notes and essays when they related to his later research areas. As per his faculty bio his “research areas are “Bohemia” in Britain 1815-1914 – that is the social history of the artistic and literary professions and their relationship to the idea of Bohemia as a social and cultural, as well as actual physical space (particularly in London). Other continuing and related research interests are Victorian journalism and journalists, and Victorian novels and novelists.”
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This fonds arrived in two accruals. Material from the first accrual was in the order in which it arrived arrived, with a series structure imposed on top. Files within each series were arranged by the archivist in most cases to improve findability and to bring related folders together. Material from the second accrual did not come in any discernable order and was organized to fit the series order from the first accession. The only difference being that the “Personal” series was expanded with the second accrual.
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