University culture
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Join botanical horticulturalist Clare Reaney in this video where you can explore the Australasian section of the Botanic Gardens. This section of the garden is one of the newest parts of the garden to be landscaped…
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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;…
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‘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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…