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COURSE OUTLINE
THE HISTORY OF DUNDEE AND ANGUS, AD 80
TO 1940
The course of lectures detailed below will be offered as part of the curriculum for the up-coming Autumn session of classes within the department of Continuing Education at the University of Dundee. If you are interested in taking part please contact the university direct or Anthony Cox @
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The course is in its second year and was very well received by those who participated last year. The course involves eighteen
classes, comprising lectures, power point presentations and discussion. It will
draw out the role of Dundee and Angus in the
forging and development of the Scottish nation, and will particularly focus on the
social history and the everyday lives of ordinary people. Some classes will be conducted in the form of
field trips, while other additional field trips will be available as a
supplementary activity.
ROMAN PRELUDE X2
These classes will focus on the
history of the Roman presence in Scotland
in general and the north-east of Scotland
in particular and will attempt to draw a picture of the society that the Romans
encountered and the impact of the Roman influence in Scotland.
FROM PICTLAND TO ALBA
X2
These classes will focus on the
experience of the north-east of Scotland
during the period 500AD to 1000AD. It
will look at the evolution and decline of Pictish society. The lecture and course work for this class
will attempt to answer the question, ‘who were the Picts?’ A supplementary activity, involving a field
trip to Pictish sites in Angus, will be offered to students.
MEDIEVAL ANGUS AND DUNDEE X2
These classes will focus on the
development of the Angus hinterland during the medieval and early modern period
(1000 to 1500). Particular attention
will be paid to the evolution of the burgh system of settlement, the experience
of the Wars of Independence and the development of urban and trading centres in
Angus. A field trip will be offered to
students, comprising a visit to Dundee will
focus on the evolution of the town during this period.
‘GENEVA
OF THE NORTH’: DUNDEE AND THE REFORMATION X2
The evolution of Dundee as a trading, manufacturing and political centre,
during the 15th and 16th centuries will be examined. The lecture and class discussion will look at
important figures associated with Dundee and
the Reformation such as George Wishart and John Knox and the place of the town
on the development of the Reformation. A
supplementary field trip to Dundee will be
offered to students.
DUNDEE AND ANGUS: FROM THE CIVIL WARS TO THE ACT
OF UNION X2
These classes will focus on the
fortunes of Dundee and Angus from 1600 to the 1740s and will look at the
background to, and consequences of, events such as the siege of Dundee, the Act of Union and the Jacobite revolts.
RADICAL DUNDEE AND ANGUS X2
These classes will focus on the
period of the late eighteenth century and the development of radical currents
of thought and action in Dundee and
Angus. A field trip to Dundee
will be offered to students to accompany this class discussion.
THE GENESIS OF JUTE
DEPENDENCY X2
These classes will focus on the
rise of urbanisation and industrialisation in Dundee
and Angus from the late eighteenth century up to the mid-nineteenth century. A field trip to the Blackness area will be
offered as part of this class.
THE MAKING OF
JUTEOPOLIS X2
These classes will focus on the
rise of the jute industry in Dundee and Angus
from the 1850s up to the beginning of the First World War.
THE DUNDEE-CALCUTTA
NEXUS X2
These classes will focus on the
links that were established between Dundee and Calcutta
from the mid-nineteenth century and will look at the consequences for Dundee
and Angus that followed from the establishment of jute manufacturing in Bengal.
THE DECLINE OF
JUTEOPOLIS, 1918-1940 X2
These classes will look at the inter-war period and focus on
the impact of the depression in Dundee during
the 1930s on ordinary peoples’ lives.
Reading List
P. J. Ashmore, Neolithic and Bronze
Age Scotland, London, 2000; Ian Armit, Celtic
Scotland, London, 2000; Tacitus, The
Agricola and The Germania, London, 1970; K. J. Edwards and I. B. M. Ralston, Scotland After the Ice Age, Edinburgh,
2003; A. P. Smyth, Warlords and Holy Men:
Scotland AD80-1000, Edinburgh, 2004; Alex Woolf, From Pictland to Alba, Edinburgh, 2007; Norman Watson, A Short History of Dundee; Ian D. Whyte, Scotland Before the Industrial Revolution, London, 1995; C. McKean,
P. Whatley and K. Baxter, Lost Dundee, Edinburgh,
2008; C. McKean, B. Harris, C. A. Whatley, Dundee:
Renaissance to Enlightenment, Dundee, 2009; W. W. Knox, Industrial Nation: Work, Culture and Society
in Scotland, 1800-Present, Edinburgh, 1999.
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