Welcome to the Centre for Scottish Culture at the University of Dundee
Scottish History
Including migration and diaspora, Highland History, healthcare, deviance, and public History.
Scottish Literature
Including early modern ballads and elegies, theatre, Gothic & Romanticism, science fiction, and the Dundee comics industry.
Scottish Art
Including film art, illustration, animation, interior design, textiles, portraiture, and the visual culture of Gaelic Scotland.
MLitt in Scottish History by Distance Learning
Want to deepen your understanding of Scotland’s history and heritage from home? The Centre for Scottish Culture’s MLitt in Scottish History allows you to study Scottish History at Masters level through world-leading online tuition. You can complete the full MLitt, or take individual modules chosen from a huge range of topics: 13th-century kingship; the reign of Mary Queen of Scots; witchcraft and witch-hunting; Jacobitism; slavery; diaspora; paleography; and many others. Find out more here.
Featured News
- Scottish History Quizzes
Our steering-committee member, Dr Allan Kennedy, has created a series of unique Scottish History quizzes. Intended initially to help keep people distracted and entertained during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, these quizzes have built up into a unique resource to test and expand your Scottish History knowledge. The quizzes are completely free for public access via gotoquiz.com, and you can find links to all of them here.
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Recent Blog Updates
- A Horror of Dirt: Uncleanliness and Vice in Early Modern Scotland
- The Marital Woes of Margaret Tosheoch: Mythologizing Marriage, Divorce, and Concubinage in Early Modern Perthshire
- The Missing Colourist? Searching for John Maclauchlan Milne RSA
- Patrick Geddes’s Intellectual Origins
- Who was Expected to go to Church in Early Modern Scotland?
- Scottish History Quizzes
- Confronting the Legacy of Slavery in Scotland
- Scottish Women in Early Modern London
- Patronage and ‘the general taste for Portrait’: David Allan and the Erskine of Torrie Portrait
- Spring Poets and Public Parks