‘When I am laid to earth – Henry Purcell’ The famous lament from Purcell’s opera “Dido and Aeneas” is sung by Helen, a member of the DUMS Chamber Choir, alongside Music Director Graeme on the piano. Helen is a PhD…
While the University’s museums and galleries are temporarily closed due to the coronavirus emergency, we’re sharing more of our collections online. This is the latest in a series of films in which museum curator Matthew Jarron tells the stories behind…
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…
The Cooper Gallery, within Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, has launched its latest project. Hear, Here runs from 26 June – 28 August. The project includes a series of sound art commissions by artists who work with images,…
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).…
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…
Join botanical horticulturalist Clare Reaney in the following video to have a look around the Scottish Flora garden in the Botanic Gardens at the University of Dundee. This area of the gardens has been developed specifically for wild Scottish flora…
While the University’s museums and galleries are temporarily closed due to the coronavirus emergency, we’re sharing more of our collections online. This is the latest in a series of films in which museum curator Matthew Jarron tells the stories behind…
Members of Tradsoc are all very much missing playing together so they have created a virtual #CovidCeilidh performance for us to enjoy! Watch them perform McKechnie’s Farewell in the video below. View this post on Instagram A post shared by…
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…