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Kenneth McRobbie fonds
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Kenneth McRobbie was born in England in 1929. He attended the University of Liverpool, receiving his B.A. (Honours) in 1953. His education continued at the University of Toronto where he received his M.A. in 1956. He went on with doctoral work but did not complete his thesis. In 1962 he entered the History Department at the University of Manitoba where he remained for 28 years, retiring at the end of the 1990 calendar year.
His interests lay in medieval and modern European cultural history. He introduced two undergraduate level history courses to the university, Futurology, and History of Utopias, concentrating on the question "where's society going?".
In 1967, he founded Mosaic , a quarterly scholarly publication at the University of Manitoba, and remained co-editor until 1974.
McRobbie's other interest was poetry, with a specific emphasis on Hungary, his wife's birthplace. He made regular trips to Hungary and maintained his contacts there, as can be seen in his collection through his correspondence and translation work.
Upon his retirement McRobbie and his wife moved to Vancouver. He taught part-time in the History Department at the University of British Columbia and his wife taught at Simon Fraser University. He continued his interests in poetry and literature.
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This collection was donated by Kenneth McRobbie in 1991
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The collection contains McRobbie's poetic and historical endeavors. Included are his poetry, publications, activities and translations. Also included are articles and reviews on his work, and correspondence, which span more than three decades. This correspondence is with contacts, both foreign - mainly Hungarian, and domestic. His translations include novels by Laszlo Nagy, Miguel Angel Asturias and Maria Krisztinkovich, and poetry by Ferenc Juhasz, Gyorgy Petri and Miklos Radnoti to name but a few.
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This collection is organized into 6 series:
Copies of Publications 1958-1990
Recent Poem Drafts 1956-1990
Activities [ca. 1951]-1989
Correspondence 1950-1990
Hungarian Translations - Novels [ca. 1973]-1989
Hungarian Translations - Ferenc Juhasz 1967-[ca. 1969]
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Finding aid created by Kathleen Hamilton (October 1991). Finding aid encoded by Julianna Trivers (September 2002).
July 26, 2005 - MSS 74 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (sy2003-10-15).
Revised by N. Courrier (February 2019).