The University has been placed firmly on the popular culture map following the discovery of 500 previously unseen photographs of The Beatles within the Michael Peto Photographic Collection.
The discovery was made last month when the 130,000 images and negatives within the collection, which was gifted to the University by Peto's stepson in 1971, were being digitised for the Visual Evidence, a searchable Internet database containing the photographic archives of the Universities of Dundee, St Andrews and Aberdeen.
Although it has been known for the last 30 years that the Peto Collection contained some images of The Beatles, it was only during the current Visual Evidence project that the significant number of images that existed actually came to light. The majority were taken during the 1965 filming of the band's second feature film 'Help!' with many shots catching John, Paul, George and Ringo in candid moments as they relax between takes.
Following the publication of several of the images in Scotland on Sunday on 10 October, the photos captured the attention of the world's media. The story appeared in newspapers, on television programmes and on countless internet sites, from the Hindustan Times to the US TV network KFDK.
Plans are now underway to stage an exhibition of the pictures in Dundee, London and possibly New York, while an accompanying book is also planned.