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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Dundee
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(159,000 in 1991)
City on the north shore of the Firth of Tay, close to the two *Tay bridges; administrative centre of the Tayside region. A town of importance since the 13C, its chief growth was the in the 19C when it became Britain's centre for the manufacture of goods from imported jute. It has often been said that 'jute, jam and journalism' are Dundee's specialities. The jam for which the city is best known is *marmalade.The national consumption of Dundee's journalism has been mainly by children, for it is here that D.C. Thomson & Co. have published Britain's most successful comics, ranging from Rover, Wizard and Hotspur to Beano and Dandy. still afloat.
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Ship-building has also been important, and the special dock made for the construction of Captain Scott's Discovery can still be seen; the Discovery herself is moored in Craig Harbour. In the Victoria Dock is the Unicorn, a wooden frigate launched in 1824 and by now the oldest British warship still afloat.
St Paul's, the episcopal cathedral, is by George Gilbert *Scott on the site of Dundee's castle, destroyed in the 14C; St Andrew's (19–20C) is the Roman Catholic cathedral. The Museum and Art Gallery, with emphasis on Scottish painters of the 19–20C, is in a building of 1871–3 by George Gilbert Scott. Dundee High School, an extremely ancient institution (founded in 1239), is now an independent fee-paying school.
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