To mark this year’s Remembrance Day commemorations Dr Kenneth Baxter from the University Archives has made two short films about soldiers who died in the First World War. The first looks at two young men who lost their lives in…
Dundee University is once again a key part of Being Human, the UK’s national celebration of the humanities. The festival takes place between the 12th and 22nd of November, with the theme built around “The Lunar City”. Despite the ongoing…
The latest virtual walking tour by University museum curator Matthew Jarron focuses on Dundee’s waterfront. While the previous videos were made using Google Streetview, this one mostly takes place off-road and so was filmed in person on a glorious sunny…
To celebrate Black History Month, Dr Kenneth Baxter from the University’s Archives Services takes a closer look at the work and lives of Walter and Angeline Kamba, two of the University’s most notable figures to work at the University with…
Opening on Tuesday 6th October, we are very excited to welcome back visitors to the Cooper Gallery in DJCAD. Our first live exhibition since lockdown is a retrospective exhibition that uses the gallery space as a means to refract the work of…
This week we have a treat from the book club – Sharon Tonner-Saunders takes us on a magical conversation about identity and the power of writing your own story drawn from ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ by J. K.…
What says Dundee better than panpipes? Watch this rather bizarre but undeniably unique introduction to Dundee and its University produced to a soundtrack that can at best be described as soothing. It is interesting to see what has changed and…
It’s the Flashback Friday Film Festival again and we have a Fry feast! This offering from the University Archives is bound to cheer you up. It’s an extract from Stephen Fry’s memorable Rectorial Address at the beginning of his first…
This week’s Flashback Friday Film Festival from the University Archives is all about ‘Discovering the Future’ in 1991. Introduced by Professor Michael Hamlin, Principal of Dundee from 1987-1994, the film focuses on the research strengths of the University in the…
In this the latest of the Flashback Friday Film Festival offerings from the University Archives we go back to 1987 a time of large hair and dubious fashion. Although shot more than 30 years ago this promotional film shows much…