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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, In the early 1930s Professor Alexander…
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…
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…
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…
To celebrate recent DJCAD graduate Lewis Deeney being selected for the Freelands Painting Prize & winning the James Guthrie Orchar Award, we thought it would be apt share his contribution to the River Deep Mountain High exhibition on the #DundeeUniCulture…
Peto worked overseas on Save the Children Fund assignments, capturing the poverty and hardships of what was known then as ‘third world countries’. This photograph from 1967, taken in Kerala, is one of many featured in the Peto Collection from…
Join Dr. Kenneth Baxter from the University Archives team in this video to hear about the charitable efforts of students at University College, Dundee (now University of Dundee) which included the publication of the Glad Mag. The amazing artwork includes…
Peto’s passion for photographing the ordinary often led him to capturing the more eccentric aspects of British life – and this capture of a group nuns sleeping in deckchairs from the ’60s is a quintessential example. Photo-journalist Michael Peto worked…
George Howard Bell was Symers Professor of Physiology in the University of Dundee, 1947-1975. He was a keen photographer and took photographs of the University, Dundee and its surrounding area. We are lucky enough to hold his collection in the…
George Howard Bell was Symers Professor of Physiology in the University of Dundee, 1947-1975. He was a keen photographer and took photographs of the University, Dundee and its surrounding area. We are lucky enough to hold his collection in the…