50th Anniversary Podcasts - University Of Dundee

The Botanic Garden was founded in 1971 – a place where science, education and conservation take centre stage, as well as a garden for the entire community of Dundee.

The colourful characters who inhabit Dundee streets have proved to be a source of inspiration for one of the city’s best-known exports – comics.

The colourful characters who inhabit Dundee streets have proved to be a source of inspiration for one of the city’s best-known exports – comics.

Dundee has connections with literary greats across the world – from authors born here, to people who studied or lived in the city.

We look back at the Principals who made the University of Dundee the place we know today.

For over 130 years, the whaling industry was of vital importance to the city of Dundee.

As we celebrate new Honorary Graduates, including Alan Alda and Susan Phillipz, we look back on the reason that they’re such a special way of marking achievement.

A short stroll from the University of Dundee is Seabraes Gardens.

We explore the history of Dentistry at the University of Dundee

We explore Dundee's thriving music scene and many of the famous and successful bands that have links with the city.

The city of Dundee has long been noted for its strong women and unsurprisingly played an important role in the suffrage movement. Find out about some of these remarkable women.

Great War Dundee is a committed partnership with the aim of commemorating the First World War and the impact it had on the city.

Michael Peto's images were eclectic in subject and location, from candid shots of music and theatre, including iconic shots of The Beatles; to photographs of Welsh mining communities and Indian villages.

DC Thomson is a hugely important part of the cultural landscape of Dundee and is known internationally for many of its publications.

Being a student is a time that should be laced with singular thinking and perhaps a time for activism. At the University of Dundee precedent has certainly been set for that.

Dundee is very fortunate to benefit from a world-class attitude to research and development within healthcare through the often groundbreaking work of the University of Dundee.

The electric light, a modern sewage system and flatscreen televisions – all inventions from Dundee! Hear how they’re connected with the University of Dundee and how they changed the world.

Dundee has welcomed innovative and exciting public art projects, ensuring that art can be enjoyed by everyone in the city. Nobody has yet done a complete count, but there are now thought to be well over 300 artworks in public spaces around Dundee.

Sir D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson was Dundee’s first Professor of Biology – the starting point for the massive growth of Life Sciences that is now one of the principal employers in the city

From the clerk’s office of a Dundee textile firm to the wide open prairies of a youthful United States of America, Robert Fleming’s financial acumen led to the formation of an investment firm with branches across the globe.