This week’s Flashback Friday Film Festival offering from the University Archives takes us back to 1976. The occasion is a visit by schoolchildren to the campus and Ninewells and as the camera follows them around we see some familiar and not so familiar sites. First is a trip to the Medical School in the newly…Continue Reading Flashback Friday Film Festival: Schools Visit
Join University Archivist Caroline Brown in this video delving into the past, looking at women in the University Archives. In this film Caroline discusses the lives of four women that are recorded in the University Archives; Margaret Fairlie, Ruth Young, Margo Cox and Mary Brooks Bank. All four of these women were born around beginning…Continue Reading Women in the University Archives
Join Dr. Kenneth Baxter from the University Archives team in another video delving into the past! In this video, Kenneth uses the Archives Collections to take a step back in time and look at Dundee’s High Street in the 19th century. Watch now in the video below:…Continue Reading The University Archives: Dundee’s High Street (Video)
In this post originally written for The Centre for Scottish Culture, Murdo Macdonald, Professor Emeritus of the History of Scottish Art at the University of Dundee, tells us about his new book, Patrick Geddes’s Intellectual Origins (Edinburgh University Press, 2020). Professor Macdonald used items from the collections in the University Archives for this book, including…Continue Reading Patrick Geddes’s Intellectual Origins
This Flashback Friday film from the University Archives takes us back to 1971 and a student demonstration in the City centre. The march was in response to proposals by Margaret Thatcher, the then Education Minister, to restrict the financing and autonomy of student unions. We see the students leaving Ellenbank, which was then the student…Continue Reading Flashback Friday Film Festival: NUS March
Join Dr. Kenneth Baxter in another video exploring our University Archives collections. In this video, Kenneth explores images of one of the University’s most iconic buildings: The Tower Building. If you know the University at all, you will undoubtedly know The Tower Building, as it is probably the building most associated with the University of…Continue Reading The University Archives: The Tower Building (Video)
For the second of our Flashback Friday films from the University Archives we are heading to Queens College Dundee. The original University College Dundee became Queens College in 1954 and to mark this the Queen and Prince Philip visited the campus in 1955. The Royal couple were welcomed by the Master of Queens College, Professor…Continue Reading Flashback Friday Film Festival: Queens College
In this second film from Archivist Caroline Brown, we continue our exploration of the role of women in the early years of the institution, which at that time was called University College, Dundee. In this second part, we take a look at what it was like to be a woman in the early years, particularly…Continue Reading Early Women at University College, Dundee – Part 2
For the first of our Flashback Friday Film Festival from the University Archives we’re going back nearly 90 years. The film has been set to music by Steven Gellatly, with many thanks to him, https://www.stevengellatly.com/. In the early 1930s Professor Alexander David Peacock, University College Dundee’s Professor of Natural History from 1926-1956, led a number of…Continue Reading Flashback Friday Film Festival: Rona and Raasay
In this video created by Dr. Kenneth Baxter from the University Archives team, you can learn about the early years of one of the University of Dundee’s most enduring student publications: Annasach. Annasach was the first University of Dundee student publication and, as you will learn in the following video, played an important role in…Continue Reading The University Archives: Annasach (Video)
Join University Archivist Caroline Brown in this fantastic video as she talks about the role of women in the early years of the institution, which at that time was called University College, Dundee. This is the first of two videos and includes Doris MacKinnon , Mary Ann Baxter and Mary Lily Walker….Continue Reading Early Women at University College, Dundee
In January we eased gently into 2020, honoured that the World Health Organisation had identified this year as Year of the Nurse and Midwife. Given that many nurses have started their career doing nursing programmes at the University of Dundee and several thriving nursing programmes in the School of Health Sciences today we decided to…Continue Reading 2020 Year of the Nurse – Time Capsule Project