This guest post comes from Suzanne Black, second-year PhD candidate in English literature at the University of Edinburgh, who attended a recent event in our 21st-Century Book Historian series. The series is a collaboration between the Universities of Edinburgh, Stirling and…
This festive post comes from Erin Farley, a local PhD student working on “Poetry, song and community in the industrial city: Victorian Dundee”, a collaboration between the University of Strathclyde and Dundee Central Library’s Local History Centre. In mid-Victorian Scotland,…
On Saturday 1st July the Centre for Scottish Culture hosted CILIP’s Library and Information History Group conference at the University of Dundee. On the theme of The Information Landscape in Scotland 1600-1900, it brought together librarians, academics and researchers for…
Keynote Speaker: Professor John J. McGavin University of Dundee, April 21st 2018 Now in its second year, Writings from Scotland Before the Union 2018 is a one-day conference which will continue to explore all areas of literature prior to the Act…
With Scottish national identity playing a key role in the political landscape of the British Isles, notions of “Scottishness” are now under scrutiny like never before. The culture of Scotland before the Act of Union of 1707 and how Scotland…
The Centre for Scottish Culture is delighted to announce the appointment of its first AHRI Doctoral Fellow, Paul McFadyen. Paul is a current PhD candidate at the University of Dundee whose main research interests are in Medieval art and literature.…
Jill Dye is a second-year PhD Student on a SGSAH-funded Applied Research Collaboration with the Universities of Stirling and Dundee and the Library of Innerpeffray. Though her PhD research focuses on borrowers from the Library of Innerpeffray 1747-1854, Jill has…
31st March – 2nd April 2017, University of Dundee Plenary Speaker: Professor Alison Lumsden As we continue to celebrate the 200th anniversaries of the first publication of many of Walter Scott’s major works, including Waverley (2014), Rob Roy (1817) and…
Saturday, April 22nd, 2017 The Centre for Scottish Culture, University of Dundee Keynote Speaker: Dr Sarah Dunnigan (University of Edinburgh) With Scottish national identity playing a key role in the political landscape of the British Isles, notions of “Scottishness”…
by Jill Dye Next month, I’ll be attending the Annual Meeting of the Association of Independent Libraries to talk about my project at Innerpeffray (described in the post below), and the benefits of academic partnerships for Independent Libraries. The meeting…