We really enjoy bringing you these blogs about famous people from Aberdeen and the north-east who (as if you needed reminding) demonstrate just how intelligent, influential and creative the people in thisRead More…
Frayed Bentos – the tin that took down a town In recent years, we all had to accept, willingly or otherwise, the fact of lockdown in the face of the coronavirus. However,Read More…
The fixer – the Aberdonian behind one of football’s greatest scandals The name of Jimmy Gauld is forever set in granite as the fixer behind arguably the greatest scandal in British footballRead More…
Walt Disney is famous for many things. Mickey Mouse, obviously, not to mention the Scottish Disney Terrier “it disnae chase rats, disnae come when it’s called and disnae do a thing IRead More…
It’s several decades since the film Mrs Doubtfire was a hit across the world. Yet at the time, I wonder how many people realised that the lady upon whom it wasRead More…
Cruden Bay lies some 25 miles north of Aberdeen. Just 12 miles offshore, lies the remains of U-1206, a German U-boat, sunk towards the end of the Second World War. AlthoughRead More…
One of the things that people sometimes say to us when they are debating about coming to live in north-east Scotland and work at RGU is that they don’t know much aboutRead More…
As the map below shows, the centre of Aberdeen in the nineteenth century was very different from what it is today. A clue to the past came in the edition of theRead More…
It may be a long way away from most other parts of the UK, but we find that when people come to live and work here with us at RGU, they alsoRead More…
With Armistice Day having just passed recently, I thought it appropriate to commemorate a man from the north-east who not only fought in the ‘War to end all Wars’ but did soRead More…