Category: Archives
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“I created this comic in collaboration with undergraduate students, master’s students and artists in order to promote the comics collection in the University of Dundee’s Archives as well as the Museum Services. It is a public…
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Peto regularly visited Dundee, photographing the city’s streets and people. ‘Foggy Day’ was taken at Whorterbank, Lochee, features one of the women wearing the famous jute ‘baffies’ and won a European award in 1960. Photo-journalist Michael…
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For her third and final film for #WellTogether Week, University Archivist Caroline Brown shows us another project of the University Archives which relates to the NHS Tayside collection – in particular the Strathmartine Hospital. The project…
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Andrew Robert’s sound installation for the River Deep Mountain High exhibition responds to a sound scan of the bed of the Tay below the Tay Road Bridge taken by University of Dundee staff in 1999. Andrew…
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For #WellTogether Week, University Archivist Caroline Brown has created some short talks which explore how archives relate to mental well-being. Today we share the second of her short talks, in which we she discusses how mental…
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In this following video for #WellTogether week, University Archivist Jan Merchant talks us through the Big Back Garden Project. The Big Back Garden Project is a project run by the Archive Services at the University of…
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For #WellTogether Week, University Archivist Caroline Brown has created some short talks which explore how archives relate to mental well-being. Today we share the first of her short talks, in which she discusses collections that relate…
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Chantal Leimbach used The Grampian Club photos and images she shot herself in Austria to inspire her contribution to the River Deep Mountain High exhibition. Chantal looked for textural similarities & differences in the images and…
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HerStory of Science exhibition opened at the School of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee on Friday, 3rd March 2017 with some of the descendants of those featured in attendance. A series of outdoor posters…
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This vibrant picture, taken in June 1959, was one of a series Peto photographed for the ‘Observer’ which did a feature of Spanish life under Franco’s regime. In the 1950s Franco implemented some reforms of Spain’s…