Colonial Connections

Aug 2110 min read

Krishna Menon and the Labour Party in Dundee

The selection of Indian nationalist Krishna Menon as a Dundee Parliamentary Candidate for the Labour Party in 1939 and his rapid...

Feb 42 min read

The University of Dundee Founders Report

Cover of the University of Dundee… In 2021 the University of Dundee employed a post-doctoral researcher, Dr Cassandra Gooptar, to prepare...

Jul 29, 20233 min read

From Uganda to Dundee – Charles Kasaja Stokes

Charles Kasaja Stokes was the son of Nanjala Malyamu Magudaleene and Charles Henry Stokes, an Irish missionary-turned-salesman in East...

Nov 24, 202210 min read

The Black Lady of Logie - a ghost story of Dundee and the British Empire

Once upon a time, in Scotland’s second city of the Empire, there was an estate called Logie, and it was home to the Read family. Logie,...

Mar 1, 20225 min read

The Man Who Wasn’t There – E D Morel in the Congo

Several anniversaries of E D Morel’s life are imminent: 2022 is the 100thanniversary of his election as a Dundee Member of Parliament,...