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In 1836 the need for medical provision "for the relief of the poor" in Arbroath was so great that a dispensary was set up by public subscription and run by the local medical practitioners. A typhus epidemic in 1842 resulted in the first in-patient service, a small fever ward for the isolation of typhus sufferers, and from 1843 subscriptions were being raised to develop this into an infirmary. With the aid of donations from subscribers and from Lord Panmure the new Infirmary opened in 1845 to provide both out-patient and in-patient care. By 1913 this building was becoming overcrowded and in 1916 the Infirmary moved to a new building on Rosemount Road. This was extended further in 1961 with the addition of the Queen Mother maternity wing. In 1948 the hospital was absorbed into the Eastern Region Hospital Board under the terms of the National Health (Scotland) Act of 1947. In 2020 it is managed by NHS Tayside.

The Conservative Group was constituted in the Queens Hotel, Dundee on 14th May 1974, shortly after the first election to the new Tayside Regional Council The Conservatives were the largest party on the new council, but did not have a majority and formed a minority administration, although the Conservative nominee for convener, William K. Fitzgerald, the former Lord Provost of Dundee (1970-1973), was defeated for the position on a cut of the cards by the independent councillor Ian A. Duncan Millar after a tied vote.
After the 1978 regional council elections the Conservatives gained a majority on the council and Fitzgerald was elected convener, a post he was re-elected to in 1982. At the 1986 election the Conservatives lost several seats and control of the council passed to a minority Labour Party Administration.
The group was originally chaired and led by Ian Mackie CBE, a former member of Dundee Town Council (1965-1971 and 1972-1975), who served as regional councillor for Clepington-Maryfield from 1974 until 1986. After Ian Mackie lost his seat in the 1986 election he was succeeded as chair by his brother Bruce. Ian Mackie had held various council convenerships and also served as a bailie. He died in 1991.
Bruce Mackie OBE served as a councillor for Broughty Ferry on Dundee Town Council from 1966 until 1975. He represented the Barnhill area of Broughty Ferry on the Regional Council throughout its existence. In 1995 he was elected to Dundee City Council, and remained on that body until his retirement in 2007. During his time as a councillor he held various convenerships and also served as a bailie. He was Chairman of Dundee East Conservative Association and the Conservative candidate for Dundee East at the 1997 General Election.

The Tay Estuary Forum brings together organisations and individuals with a common interest in the welfare and sustainable use of the Tay Estuary and adjacent coastline, from the River North Esk on the Angus coastline, to Fife Ness, including the Tay Estuary to its tidal limit at Scone. A Steering Group, comprising representatives from key organisations that operate within the region, meet regularly to manage the direction and progression of the work of the Forum, and a Secretariat based at the University of Dundee, takes care of the day-to-day business.
Forum discussions, which relate to various themes on coastal and marine management, range from Water Quality, Fishing, Sustainable Economic Development, Recreation, Nature Conservation and Education. The Forum hopes that through improved co-ordination and communication between these diverse interests and users, future conflicts within the coastal zone can be minimised and that management will progress towards a common vision for the coast of east central Scotland.
The TEF is currently funded by contributions from its Steering Group and Marine Scotland
Source: tayestuary.org.uk 09/08/2018

Dundee Medical Club was founded in 1882. It had grown out of meetings of doctors who were associated with the medical library and who found meeting beneficial so founded a social club.
Meetings were initially on Saturday each month at the Queens Hotel with an annual dinner. The club continued meeting regularly except during the world wars and in its later years arranged events and talks. Initially for medics and dentists, but a separate Dental Club was founded in 1909.
The Medical Club continued until 2019.

The British Federation of University Women (now the British Federation of Women Graduates) was founded in 1907. It is an organisation of women with degrees or equivalent qualifications working to promote women's opportunities in education and public life, foster local, national and international friendship, and improve the lives of women and girls worldwide.
The Dundee Association of the British Federation of University Women was founded in 1945.
The Dundee Association of University Women changed its name to Graduate Women Scotland East in 2016 and remained under the umbrella of the British Federation of Women Graduates.

The Brittle Bone Society (BBS) was founded in Dundee in 1968 by Margaret Grant and is the only UK-wide charity organisation set up to provide support to people affected by the bone condition, Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI). The Society works closely with specialist medical units and other professionals from across the United Kingdom, plays a crucial role in promoting research into the condition and offers practical support, advice and encouragement to patients and their relatives. The Society continues to operate from its Dundee headquarters and currently has a membership in the region of 1000.

D C Thomson & Co. Ltd are publishers primarily based in Dundee. They are responsible for over 200 million publications a year. They publish newspapers, magazines and comics including The Courier and Advertiser, The Sunday Post, The People's Friend, The Dandy and The Beano. Since the launch of The Dandy in 1937 the firm has been well known as a publisher of children's comics and many of the UK's leading comic artists have worked on the publications.

Publishing Scotland is a not-for-profit company established to provide representation for publishers across Scotland and to help further develop the publishing sector it describes itself as 'the network for tade, training and development'. It is a registered charity and was originally established in 1973 by ten Scottish publishers, as the Scottish Publishers Association and formally launched in 1974. Its founding aim was to collaborate for marketing, information and attending book fairs at a time when the Scottish publishing industry was in serious decline. The body was initially chaired by Robin Lorimer. It adopted its present name in April 2007. The organisation is based in Edinburgh and continues its original remit along as dealing with new challenges facing publishers such as digitisation issues.

The firm of Alexander Shanks & Sons Ltd of Arbroath, engineers, founders and boiler makers, was incorporated in the year 1893. It was founded around 1840 by Alexander Shanks (1801-1845) who was a pioneer in the development of the lawnmower. In the 1850s, the firm purchased Dens Iron Works, manufacturing a wide variety of products including cranes, hoists, pumps and lawnmowers. In the 1960s the firm was taken over by Giddings & Lewis Fraser Ltd, Engineers, Arbroath.

The Department of Anatomy in Dundee is one of the oldest in the University, having been conferred through an endowment by the Cox family in 1888. The twenty-six year old Andrew Paterson was appointed its first professor. In the 21st century, it was renamed the Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification

Dundee Satellite Receiving Station (DSRS) captures broadcasts from satellites passing in range of its receivers, giving scientists a handy one-stop shop for getting hold of data such as climate and meteorological information.
It arose from work done in the 1960s by Peter Baylis and Dr John Brush on picking up data from weather satellites. A 3.7-metre reflector was acquired, and the team was able to take data from the Very High Resolution Radiometer (VHRR) instrument on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 4 and 5 satellites. The two spacecraft were launched in 1974 and 1976 respectively.
Archival of the data began in 1978, with the launch by NOAA of the TIROS-N satellite, which operated until 1981 and carried the first Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) instrument.
Funding of the DSRS to capture and distribute the data to UK researchers was taken care of by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). Storing the data presented a challenge for the team – initially 75MB of raw data was generated by each satellite pass, more like 93MB when converted from 10-bit to 16-bit data. To put that in context, the first 5.25-inch hard drive, the Shugart ST506, debuted in 1980 with a mighty 5MB of capacity. DSRS therefore used a 14-track tape recorder to capture the data, running at a slightly slower than normal 29.5 inches per second in order to squeeze two passes on a single track. The tape recorder continued to be used as a backup even when the team moved to Sun workstations toward the end of the 1980s. The Sun hardware was also able to process the data in real-time (unlike the PDP-11 originally used). Fans of retro hardware will also be delighted to note that quick-look images for browsing purposes were generated from the data using an ancient Muirhead fax machine, dating back to the first half of the 20th century. Admittedly, the team stripped out the old electronics and retuned the motors to run synchronous to the satellite data rate, but the fact the machine remained in use until the early 2000s is undeniably impressive. Improvements in inkjets and a drop in demand for photographic products were what ended the machine's long life rather than a mechanical failure.
By the time funding had been cut, DSRS had around 388TB of storage at its disposal. Handy, because the data being used had hit 1.5GB for the NASA Terra and Aqua spacecraft alone. Indeed, the DSRS has obtained data from a wide variety of satellites, including Nimbus-7, SeaStar and further NOAA spacecraft as well as Meteosat (although for the latter, data is normally only archived for a few days). So impressed was the ESA with the team's efforts that the original developers ended up commissioned to publish a design and construction manual for others to create similar systems.
The Dundee Satellite Receiving Station was closed at the end of April 2019 after 40 years due to funding being cut. and currently operates commercially as Dundee Satellite Station Ltd, based at Errol (https://www.dundeesat.co.uk/)

In 1881, when University College Dundee was founded, the city of Dundee contained the Royal Infirmary and the Royal Lunatic Asylum which would provide medical teaching space for the new institution. The College however, had no power to award degrees. The Faculty of Medicine was established in Dundee in 1897 as a joint venture between the University of St Andrews and University College Dundee.
Buildings for the Dundee Medical School were officially opened in 1904, with the intention of accommodating 100–150 students. Proposals for the design of the new hospital and medical school (Ninewells) were put forward in 1960 but the building was not completed until 1the 1970s. The building cost around 10.5 million to construct and it was opened by the Queen Mother in October 1974. It was the second purpose built medical school in the UK and is affiliated with the University of Abertay and the University of Dundee.
The School of Medicine now encompasses undergraduate, postgraduate, specialist teaching centres and four research divisions.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Dundee_School_of_Medicine

The Department of Epidemiology and Public Health is based at Ninewells Hospital and Medical School. The department aims to improve the health of communities through teaching and research. During the 1950s and 1960s it was known as the Department of Public Health and Social Medicine, by 1970 it was the Department of Social and Occupational Medicine, and later it changed its name to the Department of Community and Occupational Medicine. The collection is made up of teaching materials and items from the departmental library.

The Sunnyside Staff Social & Recreational Club was a members club run by staff from the Sunnyside Royal Hospital.
Club records start with meeting minutes from 1982 with the clubhouse being opened in 1985 after renovations. The club house was located at the Sunnyside House, Hillside.

Baldovan Institution was founded in 1852, mainly through the benevolence of Sir John and Lady Jane Ogilvy and from voluntary contributions and fees. It was established on the north bank of the Dighty as an orphanage, hospital and place of education and training for 'imbecile' children, accommodating 30 children. As such it was the first hospital of its kind in Scotland and the second in Britain. The Orphanage opened on 30th November 1854 and the Asylum opened on 6th January 1855. In 1856 it's name was changed to Baldovan Asylum and it expanded it's operations after it received it's licence under the Lunacy Act of 1858, which legalised it's function as a home for children. It was found that contact with 'imbeciles' had a detrimental effect upon the orphans and so in 1867 the Orphanage moved to other premises and the Baldovan Asylum concentrated its efforts on the care and education of mentally handicapped children. By 1879 the number of children accommodated at the Asylum had increased to 70 and the site where the Administrative block now stands was acquired. By 1904 the Main Building wards were built and occupied by 160 children. The Mental Deficiency (Scotland) Act was passed in 1913, providing state supervision of mental defectives, which led to an increased demand for accommodation at Institutions like Baldovan. Between 1904 and 1932 further developments included another ward, staff residency, school facilities, a large Recreation Hall as well as occupational therapy and training in domestic, farm and garden work. In 1925 the Baldovan Institution Confirmation Act sanctioned the trustees to form an Incorporation with the counties of Aberdeen, Forfar (Angus), Kincardine and Perth to undertake the management of the hospital with provision for children of all four counties. In 1948 the running of the Hospital was transferred to the National Health Service. Subsequent developments included a change of name in 1959 to Strathmartine Hospital and major building works in 1963-1965, which saw the demolition of the original premises and the creation of new and improved facilities, including three new single storey wards and a swimming pool. Two new 25 bed wards were opened in 1980.
It was progressively decommissioned from the late 1980s, closing completely in 2003

The School of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee was formed in October 2000 from the Departments of Anatomy and Physiology, Biochemistry, Biological Sciences and Chemistry. These Departments were dissolved and replaced by eight Research Divisions and a Teaching Unit. The School is housed in five buildings on the University Campus, namely the Wellcome Trust Biocentre (WTB), the Medical Sciences Institute (MSI), the Biological Sciences Institute (BSI), the Old Medical School (OMS) and the Carnelley Building. Completed in 1997, the WTB is the most recent addition, being built and equipped with donations totalling nearly £14 million. This includes £10 million from The Wellcome Trust (thought to be the largest single charitable donation ever given to Scotland). The WTB is physically joined to and fully integrated with the MSI and this research complex houses some 450 scientists and support staff. A further 200 Scientists are based in BSI, OMS and the Carnelley Building. The School comprises some 70 Research Groups headed by Principal Investigators (PIs) that include citizens of Austria, Britain, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Japan, and the USA, and scientists from 52 different nations work in the School. Many of the PIs have been awarded prestigious Research Fellowships and a host of National and International Research Prizes. Current research grants awarded from non-University sources are £23 million per annum mainly from the Wellcome Trust, the UK Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, the National Environmental Research Council, The Royal Society of London and a number of Pharmaceutical companies. The eight Research Divisions of the School are Biological Chemistry and Molecular Microbiology, Cell Biology and Immunology, Cell and Developmental Biology, Cell Signalling, Environmental and Applied Biology, Gene Regulation and Expression, Molecular Physiology and Physical and Inorganic Chemistry. They carry out fundamental research into many of the most topical areas of current biomedical and life sciences research, and their work is aimed at understanding the causes of diseases that include diabetes, cancer, hereditary skin diseases, inflammatory diseases, defects of the immune system, antibiotic resistance in bacteria and tropical parasitic diseases.

The Oor Wullie trail was a public art project involving a number of painted sculptures of the popular DC Thomson character Oor Wullie, designed to raise money for the Archie Foundation. These Oor Wullies were all based on the same sculpture, but developed into a variety of designs by a variety of artists. An Oor Wullie trail was set up in Dundee involving 54 Oor Wullies spread throughout the city, and one at Carnoustie. Additionally 11 Oor Wullies toured Scotland, with a further one at Glasgow Cental Railway Station and one at Edinburgh Waverley Railway Station. In addition smaller versions, painted by school children, were created, while a special snowglobe version was displayed at Ninewells Hospital. The trail ended on 27th August 2016. From 9th-11th September all the statues were on display at a special event in Slessor Gardens Dundee. All 68 of the main sculptures, along with the snowglobe and one smaller sculpture were then auctioned, raising £883,000 with all proceeds going to the Archie Foundation.

The University hosted the dinner as a fundraiser for Robertson Trust Scholars. The invitation to high-profile alumni came from Lord George Robertson and the event was sponsored by George and Jean Baird.
The Robertson Trust was established in 1961 by the Robertson sisters Elspeth, Agnes and Ethel, who donated their shares in the family businesses, built up by their grandfather and father, to the Trust for charitable purposes. The sisters were among the first Trustees, serving for a combined total of 71 years and ensuring the Trust upheld the principles at the heart of the family: honesty, integrity and a willingness to help people in need. The family business now operates as the global company Edrington – one of Scotland’s largest private companies and owner of several well-known whisky brands. The sisters’ generosity enables the Trust to use the dividends from its controlling shareholding in Edrington for the benefit of Scotland’s people and communities.

George Taylor and Andrew Skinner were originally surveyors in Aberdeen before their work took them to Ireland and then America. Their 'Survey' was considered the most reliable road map well into the 18th century. Despite this the map never brought the authors any profits, Taylor and Skinner reported half of the 3 000 printed copies unsold in 1778 and therefore they still had debts to pay

Student society which produces a full-scale musical every year, as well as staging a number of concerts and smaller shows.

The University of Dundee Ladies' Club held its inaugral meeting on 25 October 1928. Originally known as Dundee University College Tea Club it was later known as Queen's College Ladies' Tea Club. Formed for the relatives and wives of University staff the club organised social events, talks and lectures. In 2003 it celebrated its 75th anniversary.