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
- The Scottish Privy Council, 1692-1708
The Centre for Scottish Culture has partnered with the University of Stirling for a major, three-year research project entitled ‘The Scottish Privy Council, 1692-1708: Government from Revolution to Union’.
Funded by the Leverhulme Trust, the Scottish Privy Council Project will research one of the most important institutional branches of Scottish government in the early modern period. No published records exist for the Council in the years from 1692 to 1708 and the key aim of the project is the creation of an online digital record, combined with a simultaneous programme of research. Working with this exceptional record, the themes of law and order, national security, social cohesion and disruption, social control in support of the church, the prevalence of economic distress, the nature of micro and macro-economic policy, the qualities of institutional cooperation between the Council and other national and local bodies, and the character of foreign relations with England and continental Europe, reflects just some of the avenues of research that can be investigated.
Led by Dr Alastair Mann (Principal Investigator), Dr Alan MacDonald (Co-Investigator) and Dr Allan Kennedy (Manager), the project involves an ambitious programme of publications, conferences and public-engagement events, alongside its core academic content.
Find out more at our website, which is coming soon. In the meantime, you can follow us on Twitter @ScotsCouncil
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