{"id":3681,"date":"2022-12-08T10:04:49","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T10:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningspaces.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeuniculture\/?p=3681"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:46:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:46:45","slug":"dundee-in-1776","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/dundee-in-1776\/","title":{"rendered":"Dundee in 1776"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join the University Archives as Kenneth Baxter takes us on a tour of Dundee in 1776.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3687\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/12\/ms-17P-195-Crawford-plan-of-Dundee-1776-smaller-1024x849.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"849\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/12\/ms-17P-195-Crawford-plan-of-Dundee-1776-smaller-1024x849.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/12\/ms-17P-195-Crawford-plan-of-Dundee-1776-smaller-300x249.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/12\/ms-17P-195-Crawford-plan-of-Dundee-1776-smaller-768x636.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/12\/ms-17P-195-Crawford-plan-of-Dundee-1776-smaller.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Using Crawford&#8217;s plan of Dundee Kenneth explains how Dundee has changed over time. There are several familiar parts of the map including the Nethergate and Overgate (albeit they look very different today)<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3683\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-08-095122.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1013\" height=\"729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-08-095122.png 1013w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-08-095122-300x216.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-08-095122-768x553.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1013px) 100vw, 1013px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are also many buildings which have since been destroyed &#8211; do you know what A and B on this map are? B used to stand in front of what was the Clydesdale Bank.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3685\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-08-094958.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"916\" height=\"634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-08-094958.png 916w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-08-094958-300x208.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-08-094958-768x532.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 916px) 100vw, 916px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Can you spot the Glasite Church Hall and the beginnings of Dens Works?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3686\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-08-100054.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"979\" height=\"693\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-08-100054.png 979w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-08-100054-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-08-100054-768x544.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 979px) 100vw, 979px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To find out more watch Kenneth&#8217;s video at<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"University of Dundee Archives - Dundee in 1776\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SyRWc2DyQMY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join the University Archives as Kenneth Baxter takes us on a tour of Dundee in 1776. Using Crawford&#8217;s plan of Dundee Kenneth explains how Dundee has changed over time. There are several familiar parts of the map including the Nethergate and Overgate (albeit they look very different today) There are also many buildings which have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"featured_media":3683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-architecture","category-archives","category-history"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6209,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3681\/revisions\/6209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}