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Dundee's economy has diversified after its dependence on the jute industry, and cultural and social life have developed in directions that would have been hard to predict. This vivid, informative and illustrated account concentrates on these critical yrs. Before World War Two the city was in decline and only in the 1970s, with the advent of new technologies, did Dundee's regeneration begin. Against this background of profound change, the author gives a remarkable account of the rich daily life of Dundee. He recalls important events and individuals and offers keen insights into the processes of development and recovery. Modern Dundee will be evocative reading for anyone who knows the city and has lived there during the post-war years, and it will also serve as a valuable introduction to its immediate history.
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ANDREW MURRAY SCOTT has lived in the Dundee area since the age of one, firstly in a prefab at Strips of Craigie, then at Dean Avenue, Buchanan Street, Benvie Road, Nethergate, Baldovie Terrace and Broughty Ferry. His early days as a writer were funded by employment in Sunblest Bakeries, Dayco Rubber, Arnotts, the Earl Grey Hotel. Agnews, Dundee Royal Infirmary, the Nelson Bar, Waterstones , Christian Salvesen and the Michelin plant. He also served a term as a Dundee District Councillor and after a stint as assistant to Gordon Wilson MP, worked for six years as a self-employed writer and journalist. He then attended Dundee University as a mature student and graduated MA English & Modern History with first class honours in 1997. For nine years, he worked as a Media & Comms Lecturer at Dundee College also teaching Creative Writing evening classes. He took early retirement in 2016 to return to writing after nine years as Press officer for the city's SNP parliamentarians, Shona Robison, Joe FitzPatrick, Chris Law and Stewart Hosie. He is the author of many books including many successful local titles Discovering Dundee, The Wee Book of Dundee and a two-volume cultural history of the city: Dundee's Literary Lives. Three of his novels, Estuary Blue, In a Dead Man s Jacket and Tumulus (which won the inaugural Dundee Book Prize in 1999) are set in the city. His most recent novels are political thrillers, Deadly Secrecy and Scotched Nation.
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- PublisherDB Publishing
- Publication date2019
- ISBN 10 1780916000
- ISBN 13 9781780916002
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages244
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