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Scottish Field
EeditorRichard Bath
CategoriesCultural magazine
FrequencyMonthly
First issue1903
CompanyWyvex Media Ltd
KintraScotland
Based inGlesga
Wabsteidscottishfield.co.uk
ISSN0036-9309

Scottish Field is a Scottish monthly magazine that covers tradeitional, leisure, an historical interests.[1]

History an profile

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The magazine wis foondit bi umwhile railwey beuking clerk an advertisin executive John MacMurtie in Glesga in Mey 1903, follaeing the model o the field sports magazine The Field in Ingland.[2]

In 1931 the ootdoors jurnal wis taen ower bi Henry Munro, then bocht oot in the 1960s bi Sir Hugh Fraser's Universal Investments group whan it cam unner the weeng o George Outram & Co..[2] In the 1960s the magazine haed a circulation o 68,000.[3]

Unner the editorship of Roddy Martine in 1976 the magazine wis based, for a brief time, in Edinburgh, shiftin back tae Glesga efter a management buyoot. Unner the editorship o Archie Mackenzie frae 1994 to 2010, the magazine enjoyed its hunnerd year in 2003 and in 2007 wis named Consumer Magazine of the Year at the Scottish Magazine Awards. Syne November 1994 Scottish Field haes been awnt bi Howard Bennett. Its editor syne 2010 is Richard Bath.[2]

Weel-kent contreibutors hae includit Edwin Muir,[4] Bud Neill,[5] Lewis Spence,[6] Neil Gunn,[7] David Daiches,[8] Maurice Lindsay,[9][10] George Mackay Brown[11] an Marion Chesney, that wis fashion editor.[12]

References

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  1. "Scotland - Cultural institutions". Encyclopedia Britannica.
  2. a b c Bootland, Morag (20 December 2019). "Take a trip back in time with". Scottish Field. Retrieved 3 Apryle 2020.
  3. "Field covers new ground". HeraldScotland. 25 August 1993. Retrieved 2 Apryle 2020.
  4. Crawford, Robert (30 Apryle 2011). The Bard - Robert Crawford - Google Books. ISBN 9781446466407. Retrieved 2 Apryle 2020.
  5. "Scotland - Bud Neill, creator of Lobey Dosser: cartoonist extraordinaire". BBC. Retrieved 3 Apryle 2020.
  6. Gibbon, Lewis Grassic (15 Juin 2013). A Scots Quair - Lewis Grassic Gibbon - Google Books. ISBN 9780857905710. Retrieved 4 Apryle 2020.
  7. Margery Palmer McCulloch. "Reshaping Scotland: Ireland, Europe and the Interwar Scottish Literary Renaissance Movement" (PDF). Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies. 1 (1). Retrieved 4 Apryle 2020.
  8. John Sutton Baglow. "Hugh MacDiarmid and the problems of the modern poet" (PhD Thesis). University of Glasgow. Retrieved 4 Apryle 2020.
  9. "About Maurice Lindsay". The University of Edinburgh. 30 October 2019. Retrieved 4 Apryle 2020.
  10. "Obituaries. Maurice Lindsay". Telegraph. 4 Juin 2009. Retrieved 4 Apryle 2020.
  11. "1971 – George Mackay Brown". Gmb Bibliography. Retrieved 4 Apryle 2020.
  12. "Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin creator MC Beaton dies aged 83". BBC News. 2 Juin 2020. Retrieved 3 Apryle 2020.

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