University of Dundee Archive Services
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- Telephone
- +44 (0)1382-384095
- Address
- Tower Building, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 4HN, Scotland, UK
- Directions
- Archive Services is situated in the basement of the Tower Building. To find us go down the stairs behind the lifts in the Tower foyer, turn left at the foot of the stairs and follow the signs. If in doubt there is a reception desk at the entrance to the Tower where you can ask for directions
- Opening Hours
- Monday-Wednesday 9am-5pmFriday 9am-5pm
- Photographs Allowed
- depending on the material
- Photocopying Services
- yes
- Facilities for Disabled Persons
- The Archive has provision for wheelchair users and aims to serve the needs of all wishing to make use of our service. Please telephone in advance if you have any special requirements and we'll do our best to help.
- Archival and Other Holdings
The Archive holds extensive collections of documents, volumes, plans, photographs and film, dating from the fifteenth century to the present day. Major collections include the University and associated records, those of the jute and linen industry and transport, records of the Glasites and the Brechin Diocese of the Episcopal Church and the Michael Peto photographic collection. We also hold an extensive collection of rare books and newspapers relating to Scottish history and British labour, social and shipping history.
The collections relate to organisations and individuals in Dundee and the surrounding area, offering evidence for local, national and international research. Topics include research into education, religion and social and business history, the built and natural environment, travel and leisure, medicine and health, local and family history
- History
The Archive manages and maintains the University of Dundee's manuscripts and records collections. It collects and preserves records relating to the University and its predecessors, including administrative, individual and research material. It is also the repository for the administrative and medical records created by Tayside Health Board and its predecessors as well as of major collections created by individuals, business and organisations associated with the University and local area.The main aims of the department are to:secure the long-term preservation of the University collections and selected institutional records;promote the use of the collections to support the core institutional aims of research, teaching and learning and use the collections to support the promotion of the UniversityArchive Services is the section of Archive, Records Management and Museum Services (ARMMS),
- A & S Henry & Co Ltd
- Abertay Historical Society
- Aerial Photographs of Dundee and District
- Alan Chalmers Lendrum, Professor Emeritus Of Pathology, University of Dundee
- Alexander Bell, F.R.C.S., surgeon in Dundee
- Alexander R. Brown Collection
- Alexander Shanks & Sons Ltd
- Alexander Thoms papers
- Alexander Tulloch MacQueen, Lecturer in Physiology, University of Dundee
- Alexander Webster Papers
- Anderson-Grice Co Ltd Carnoustie
- Andrew Burn-Murdoch Photographic Collection
- Andrew Gilchrist, Burnbank, Lanarkshire: Notebooks
- Andrew McLaren Carstairs, Lecturer in Economic History, University of Dundee
- Andrew Murray Scott Collection
- Angus MacGillivray, FRSE FSA Scot, Lecturer in Ophthalmology, University College, Dundee
- Anna MacDonald
- Arbroath and Montrose Methodist Circuit
- Arbroath Horse Hiring Co Ltd, Arbroath
- Arbroath Infirmary
- Article concerning John Wilson the botanist
- Ashwell and Nesbit Ltd
- The Association for Science Education (ASE)
- Association of Jute Spinners and Manufacturers
- Autograph book: Emily Walker's 'Confessions'
- Badenach Nicolson
- Baxter Brothers & Co Ltd, linen and jute spinners and manufacturers, Dundee
- Baxter Family wills, legal and related papers
- Baxter’s Dundee Rep Theatre programmes
- Bell family
- Bengal Project Collection
- Biographical Notes on James Ballantyne Hannay accumulated by Robert H S Robertson
- Blairgowrie and Rattray Districts Cottage Hospital
- Boase & Co Ltd, Claverhouse Bleachfield, Dundee
- Bowe Collection
- Brechin Diocesan Library: Miscellaneous Papers and Volumes
- Bridge of Earn Hospital
- British Association for the Advancement of Science: Tayside And Fife Branch
- British Commonwealth and Empire Nurses War Memorial Fund
- British Jute Trade Research Association
- British Medical Association: Dundee Branch
- Broughty Ferry Branch of the SNP
- Broughty Ferry Library Action Committee
- Bruce Walker
- Buist Spinning Co Ltd
- C. Thomson Collection
- C.A. White papers
- Cable and Ewen family certificates
- Caird (Dundee) Ltd, Jute Manufacturers
- Calcutta and Mofussil Scots Society
- Calendars of Confirmations and Inventories
- Camperdown Masonic Lodge
- Carn Dearg Mountaineering Club
- Carnoustie Golf Club and research by W.B.R. Coupar
- Chalmers family papers
- Charles Lorimer Papers
- Charles Tennant Collection of Maps and Plans
- College and Collegiate Church of The Holy Spirit, Isle Of Cumbrae
- Colonel Sir Alexander J H Russell
- Commonplace book of James Taylor
- Commonplace books of Anna Milne Mackie
- Community Medicine Department
- Complaint against John Bowes
- Copy of transcript of a diary entitled 'Our Scotch Tour'
- Correspondence of Alexander Penrose Forbes, Bishop of Brechin and George Frederick Boyle
- Corstorphine / Taylor Collection
- Cox Brothers Ltd, Jute Spinners and Manufacturers, and Cox Family Papers
- Craiks Limited, Linen and Jute Merchants and Manufacturers, Forfar
- D J MacDonald Ltd, Engineers, Dundee
- D Pirie & Company Limited
- David Drysdale papers
- David Paterson Collection
- David Robert Robertson
- David Small & Sons, Seedsmen, Brechin
- David Waterson, RE, FSA, (Scot)
- 'The Dayspring of Desire; poems by Arthur Thomson'
- Department of Physics: Papers relating to amorphous silicon
- Depree and Southgate family papers
- Dickson Park
- Don & Low (Holdings) Ltd
- Donald Archibald Petrie papers
- Donald George Sutherland
- Donald William James Murray Gordon
- Douglas of Brigton: Barony Court Book
- Dr Alexander Scott
- Dr C. J. Talbot, Department of Geology, University of Dundee
- Dr George Soutar, Reader in English, University College, Dundee
- Dr I.T. Adamson, Department of Mathematics, University of Dundee
- Dr James F. Riley
- Dr John Berry of Tayfield
- Dr Ruth Young
- Dr W. K. Stewart
- Dr William Christie
- Dr William Maxwell Jamieson
- Dundee Art Society
- Dundee Association of the British Federation of University Women
- Dundee City Labour Party
- Dundee Clinical Club
- Dundee College of Education
- Dundee College of Nursing
- Dundee Combination Parochial Board
- Dundee Convalescent Hospital
- Dundee Dental Hospital
- Dundee District Board of Control
- Dundee Eye Institution
- Dundee General Hospitals (Board of Management)
- Dundee Harbour Commissioners
- Dundee Harbour Porters Philanthropic Society
- Dundee Institute of Architects
- Dundee Medical Library
- Dundee Medical School
- Dundee Medical Society
- Dundee Mental Hospitals (Board of Management)
- Dundee Naturalists Society
- Dundee Oral History Project
- Dundee Orthopaedic and Rheumatic Clinic
- Dundee Power Loom Tenters Society
- Dundee Royal Infirmary
- Dundee School of Economics
- Dundee Stock Exchange Association
- Dundee Town Council
- Dundee United Football Company, Limited
- Dundee University Students' Association
- Dundee Women's Hospital and Nursing Home
- Dundee Working Men's Field Club
- Dundee, Perth & London Shipping Co Ltd
- Eastern Joint Ophthalmic Services Committee
- Eastern Regional Hospital Board
- Edith Philip Smith, F.R.S.E., Lecturer in Botany
- Elder Family of Nether Dryburgh, Camperdown, Dundee
- Embryo - Dundee Textile Artists
- Emeritus Principal James Drever, Master of Queen's College, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Dundee
- Enid Gauldie papers
- Family photograph album of Ralph Henderson, Dundee
- Family trees of the Guthrie families
- Field Notebook of William Duncan, Investigator for the Dundee Parish Council
- First World War Collection
- Fleeming Jenkin
- Forfarshire Medical Association
- Fragment of Oxyrhynchus Papyri and related papers
- The Francis Frith Collection: Photographs of Highland Perthshire
- The G. Ronald Cameron Collection.
- G.C. Taylor and Son
- G.L. Wilson's Department Store
- Genealogical tree of the family of Turnbull
- Genealogy of the Eisner family
- George Duncan Paterson FSA (Scotland)
- The Gerard Trust
- Giddings & Lewis-Fraser Ltd
- Glasgow Argus
- Glasite Church
- Gordon Wilson, MP for Dundee East and Chairman of the Scottish National Party
- Graham of Fintry: Household Records
- Grampian Club
- H & A Scott Ltd, Textile Manufacturers, Dundee
- Hanna, Donald & Wilson, Gas &General Engineers, Ironfounders and Contractors, Paisley
- Harry Duffus textile research
- Henry Boase
- Henry Jack, Reader, Department of Mathematics, University of Dundee
- Herschell's Dundee Rep Theatre programmes
- Hugh Stannus Stannus
- Hunter, Doig and Palmer
- Insurance Committees
- Irene McDonald interview
- J D B MacDougall, MD, FRSE
- J. Barrie & Co., Dundee
- J.B. Hay & Co. Ltd
- J.T. Forbes Ltd, Music Shop, Dundee
- James Allison & Sons (Sailmakers) Ltd, Dundee
- James Banks & Sons, Rope and Twine Merchants, Perth
- James D. Cameron papers
- James F Low & Co Ltd
- James Milton Robb
- James S. Miller Collection
- John Burdin National Counselling and Guidance Archive
- John Edward Aloysius Steggall, Professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics
- John Falconer Papers
- John Iball, Professor of Chemistry, University of Dundee
- John Mathieson Nairn
- John Morris Collection
- John Noble Collection
- John P Ingram, Shipping Correspondent
- John Robinson Imrie Collection
- John Sturrock papers
- John T. Ewen correspondence
- John Ward's Notes on Dundee Trade Unionism
- Joseph Johnston Lee
- Joseph Lee Musical Score
- Julius Salomon & Co, Merchants, Dundee
- The Jute Importers Association
- Ken Miln Collection
- Kennedy Family Miscellany
- Kings Cross Hospital
- Kinnear Collection
- Kydd's Dundee Repertory Theatre programmes
- L.P. Michie, Chemist, Dundee
- Laura Adam Collection
- Letter concerning John Ray's Synopsis Medothica Stirpium Britannicarum
- Letter from Archibald Allan
- Letter from D.R. Dow to his father
- Letter of commission by Archibald Lord Douglas
- Letter referring to a surgical operation
- Letter referring to Le Peinture Gravure
- Letter, from Margaret Sturrock of Frye Village, South Andover, Massachusetts.
- Letters relating to the ship Ellengowan.
- Lewis C Grant & Co Ltd, Dunnikier Foundry, Dysart
- Lieutenant Patrick Wright Anderson, Black Watch, RFC and RAF
- List of graves and plan of Roodyards Cemetery, Dundee, with Baxter graves marked
- Local Glass Plate Negative Collection
- Loose pages from Statutory Factory Register
- Lord Robert's Workshop and Blindcraft, Dundee (formerly the Royal Dundee Institution for the Blind)
- Low & Bonar Ltd, Jute Spinners, Manufacturers and Merchants, Dundee
- Made-Up Textiles Association Limited
- Major William Morton MacKay MC TD BSc MIEE, Senior Lecturer, Department of Electrical Engineering, Queen's College, Dundee
- Major-General Douglas Neil Wimberley, Principal Of University College, Dundee
- Malcolm Ogilvie & Co. Ltd, Jute Spinners and Manufacturers
- Malcolm Slesser
- Manifest of the schooner Honest Endeavour
- Margaret Menzies Campbell
- Marshall & Edgar, Lilybank Foundry, Dundee
- Mary D. Peters papers
- Mary Sime Greig
- Maryfield Hospital
- McKean Photographic Album
- Medical Health Publications
- Melville Jameson, Solicitor, Perth
- Memoirs of Sir Charles Dixon
- Messrs Dundas & Wilson CS: Edward Caird's Trust
- Meteorological Office Data
- Michael Masterson, Department of Politics, University of Dundee
- Michael Peto
- Michael Shafe, Deputy Librarian, University of Dundee
- Miscellaneous correspondence relating to [Professor] Robert Blackie, [Professor]Eyre B[aden] Powell and [Professor] J[ohn] P[ringle] Nichol.
- Miscellaneous notes relating to St Andrews Episcopal Church, St Andrews
- Miscellaneous Photographs and Prints
- Miscellaneous Plans
- Miss Elizabeth McGill Clark
- Monifieth Red Cross Hospital
- Mr W Christie, Blacksmith, Rhynd
- Mrs Barbara S Martin: Patrick Geddes Memorabilia
- Murthly Hospital
- National Health Service Executive Council
- Natural History Museum warning posters
- Nine Incorporated Trades of Dundee
- Ninewells Hospital and Medical School
- Norman Soutar Photographs
- Normile Baxter Collection
- North British Railway, Dundee and Arbroath Joint Line Act, 1879
- North Eastern District Co-operative Conference Association
- North Tayside Conservative and Unionist Association
- Note with brief details concerning the brig 'Eliza'
- Notes concerning Blairgowrie, Banff and the forest of Alyth
- Notes concerning Dundee Elections
- Notes extracted from Dr James Gregory's lectures on the practice of physic
- Notes from Dr Alexander Monro's lectures on surgery
- Notes from medical lectures taken by George Buchanan
- Notes from medical lectures taken by George Halley
- Notes historiques sur la Peinture sur Verre
- Notes on the cultivation and manufacture of Jute
- Notes on the text of 'Auchterhouse Old and New; a Historical and Social Record'
- Ogilvie, Cowan & Co, Solicitors, Dundee
- Order of the White Shrine of Jerusalem
- Papers and documents of Niall Robertson
- Papers of Alexander Hannay, fl.1860, proprietor of the Grand Theatre, Glasgow, Scotland
- Papers of Dr Victor Skretkowicz
- Papers of George Murdoch, Kirk Treasurer, Dundee, and Family
- Papers of the Gauldie Family
- Papers of William Grimond, Trader, Dundee, and his family
- Papers regarding Clementina Stirling Graham, collected by Henny King
- Papers relating to James Bowman Lindsay
- Papers relating to James Thomson, City Engineer, City Architect and Housing Director, Dundee
- Papers relating to Nether Balloch Farm, Alyth
- Papers relating to settlers in New Zealand
- Papers relating to Sir Thomas Malcolm Knox
- Papers relating to the Jute Trade in Dundee
- Papers relating to the Paterson family in Gourepore
- Papers relating to the Witch of Monzie
- Pathology Drawings
- Paton and Dingwall Family Papers, Dundee
- Patons of Montrose, Flax and Tow Manufacturers
- Perth College of Nursing and Midwifery
- Perth Royal Infirmary
- Peter Carmichael of Arthurstone
- Peter Haining: The Attic Archive Collection
- Philip Whitaker papers
- Photocopies of photographs of Dundee
- Photocopy of crop rotation book for farms in Auchterarder area with maps of farms and crofts
- Photographs of beached whale
- Photographs of Dundee in the 1970s
- Photographs of First Polish Armoured Division
- Photographs of Taiwan
- Poem in memory of Thomas Thompson
- Poesie by John William Stegall
- Polish Armed Forces in Scotland Project
- Postcards of Dundee and the Surrounding Area
- Prints from the Dioptric Review
- Prof. Stuart McDonald
- Professor Adam Patrick
- Professor Alexander David Peacock, Professor of Natural History, University College, Dundee
- Professor Alexander McKenzie F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry, University College, Dundee
- Professor Archibald Duncan Campbell, Professor of Applied Economics
- Professor Arthur Alexander Matheson QC, Master of Queen's College, Dundee
- Professor Arthur Donald Walsh, Chair of Chemistry, University of Dundee
- Professor Charles McKean, Professor of Scottish Architectural History, University of Dundee
- Professor Christopher Whatley, Bonar Chair of Modern History, University of Dundee
- Professor D. A. T. Dick, Professor of Anatomy, University of Dundee
- Professor David Rutherford Dow, Professor of Anatomy and Master of Queens College, Dundee
- Professor George Howard Bell Photographic Collection
- Professor James Whyte Leitch Adams, Bell Chair of Education, University of Dundee
- Professor John Anderson
- Professor Richard Charles Alexander, Professor of Surgery, University of St Andrews
- Professor Sir Ian Hill, Department of Medicine, University of Dundee
- Professor Stanley Jones, Professor of Geography, University of Dundee
- Professor Walter E. Spear
- Professor William John Tulloch, Chair of Bacteriology, University College and Queen's College, Dundee
- Professor William Norrie Everitt, Baxter Chair of Mathematics, Queen's College, Dundee
- Queen's College, Dundee
- Records concerning the life and adventures of Mary Eleanor Bowes (1749-1800) with correspondence concerning the Maxtone Graham family
- Records of Brechin Chapel
- Records of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art
- Records of Dundee Institute of Art and Technology
- Records of Professor Hitchin, Dundee Dental School
- Records of St Andrew's Episcopal Church, Brechin
- Records of St James' Church, Stonehaven
- Records of St Laurence's Church, Laurencekirk
- Records of St Margaret's Church, Lochee, Dundee
- Records of St Mary's Church, Arbroath
- Records of St Mary's Church, Broughty Ferry
- Records of St Ternan's Church, Muchalls
- Records of Tarfside Episcopal Church, Lochlee
- Records of the Chapel of St Ronan's Home, Dundee
- Records of the Church of the Holy Rood, Carnoustie
- Records of the Diocese of Brechin
- Records relating to Kelly Castle, Arbroath
- Records relating to Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt
- Records relating to the 'S.S. Juliana' and to its captain, David Kidd
- Records relating to the ship RRS Discovery
- Reminiscences of David McMurchie
- 'Reminiscences of Flax Spinning' by William Brown
- Rental of Dunbog Estate
- 'Report to the Commissioners for Supplying The City of Perth with Water, on the means employed for carrying into effect that measure'
- Reports and related papers concerning the raspberry industry
- Richard Hayward & Sons Ltd, Canvas and Twine Manufacturers and Merchants, Merriot, Somerset
- Robert Berry Collection
- Robert Cochrane Buist, Lecturer in Midwifery and Gynaecology, University College, Dundee
- Robert L Fleming Ltd
- Robert Leighton
- Robert Matthew Johnson-Marshall & Partners
- Robert Smith BSc, Department of Botany, University College, Dundee
- Roger Leitch Oral History Transcriptions
- Ronald Farquharson Collection
- Ronald Paterson Doig
- Royal Dundee Liff Hospital
- Royal Victoria Hospital
- The Rucksack Club
- Ruggles Bequest
- S. F. Price Collection
- Scots Language Resource Centre, Unpublished Theatre Scripts Archive
- Scottish Cities Project
- Scottish Co-Operative Wholesale Society, Jute Spinners and Manufacturers, Dundee
- Scrapbook of H.C. Williamson, F.R.S.
- Scrapbook of Newspaper Cuttings, with separate index.
- Scrapbook of newspaper cuttings, with index.
- Scrapbooks of newspaper cuttings apparently compiled by Jamie Neish
- Sgian Dubh: The Newsletter of the National Movement
- Shiell and Small, Solicitors
- Sidlaw Hospital
- Sidlaw Industries, Dundee
- Sir David Chalmers papers
- Sir Patrick Geddes, Professor of Botany, University College, Dundee
- Sir Robert Robertson
- Sisterhood of SS Mary and Modwenna
- Small notebooks compiled by James Nicoll
- Smith Collection
- The Smith Family of Dundee
- Sonnet by John Drinkwater
- South Angus Constituency Labour Party
- South East Scotland Water Board Records
- South Lights, River Tay
- Specimens of the mosses of Fifeshire
- Stan Turner, Photographic Department
- Stewart's Dundee Repertory Theatre collection
- Strathmartine Hospital
- Sunnyside Royal Hospital
- Susan Gregory Oral History: Community Spirit in 1960s Housing
- Tay Bridge Collection
- Tay Whale Fishing Company
- Tayside Health Board
- Tayside Rehabilitation Engineering Services
- Thomas C Keay Ltd, Engineers and Mill Furnishers, Dundee
- Thomas Campbell
- Thomas Handyside Baxter
- Thomson Family Photograph Album
- Thomson, Shepherd & Co Ltd, Jute spinners and manufacturers, Dundee
- The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans
- Timex (George Mason) collection
- Torrance Collection
- Transcript of Robert Edward's Common Place Book by Alexander Hutcheson, and related papers
- Transcript of speech by Robert Fleming
- Transcripts and papers of Dean William Leslie Christie
- Umpherston and Kerr, Millwrights, Dundee
- University College Dundee
- University of Dundee
- Valuation Rolls
- Victoria Spinning Co. Ltd, Dundee
- Volume of insect drawings
- Volume of miscellaneous notes
- W G Grant & Co Ltd, Linen Manufacturers, Panmure Works, Carnoustie
- W. Henry de Wytt
- W. S. Howe photographs
- Whaling Log Books of Walter Kinnes and David Esplin
- William Allen Collection
- William Brown's Essay on Flax Spinning and Related Papers
- William C Scott, Wool Merchant and Skinner, Dundee
- William Duncan papers
- William Fraser Mitchell
- William Halley and Sons Ltd, Dundee
- William Kidd, Bookseller, Stationer and Printer, Dundee
- William Norrie Papers
- William Pringle Laird
- William R Stewart & Sons (Hacklemakers) Ltd, Dundee
- William Roxburgh papers
- Wilson Bros (Alva) Ltd
- Wilson Family Papers
- Wm Fergusson & Sons Ltd, Jute Manufacturers, Dudhope Works, Dundee
- Working Class Life in Dundee for Twenty Five Years 1878-1903