The American anarchist Voltairine de Cleyre spoke in Dundee at Plumbers Hall, Wellgate on September 18th 1897 as part of her Scottish tour arranged by the Glasgow anarchists William and Maggie Duff.

It was jute, the tough, durable fabric that tied this corner of Allentown to India’s storied Bengal Province and Ganges Delta and the many jute mills of 19th century Dundee, Scotland.

Dundee capitalised on its history of weaving, whaling and shipbuilding to become the world’s jute capital in the 19th century, with products made in the city, including bagging and sacks, used ...

Dundee has two nicknames, the ‘City of Discovery’ and the ‘City of Jute, Jam, and Journalism.’ Once known for its textile factories, today it boasts tons of interesting museums and Dundee ...

At its height, in the late 19th Century, Dundee was the base for around 60 jute mills employing more than 50,000 workers. Two out of three of the workers were women.

DUNDEE'S once proud heritage of jute, jam and journalism took another step into the past yesterday as the city's last cargo of raw jute came ashore. The city's jute industry at one time employed ...

I COULD hardly keep up with Professor Charles McKean. His eyes gleaming excitedly from under the glasses, his coat-tails flapping in the wind that… ...

Brian said: "In the Fifties, there were these people who left Dundee to go and invigorate the jute industry in India. "They went to India, learned Indian and lived pioneering lives.

The museum stands in for the more than 100 jute mills that once operated in Dundee and employed, by the late 1800s, 40,000 of the city’s 170,000 residents. <b>The jute era</b> ...

Housed inside the engine house of a former jute mill, Verdant Spirits has replaced 19th-century factory engines with a 500 litre, state-of-the-art pot still called ‘Little Eddie’, where small ...

Processing jute took hold in Dundee in the 19th Century. Dundee was a whaling city, and it was discovered that jute from India could be processed by machine if first treated with whale oil.

Dundee councillors have called for the local authority to secure the site of a major fire that ravaged a derelict city jute mill earlier this week. The crumbling two-storey Queen Victoria Works ...