Scottish Field
CategoriesCultural magazine
FrequencyMonthly
First issue1903
CompanyWyvex Media Ltd
CountryScotland
Based inEdinburgh
Websitescottishfield.co.uk
ISSN0036-9209

Scottish Field is a Scottish monthly magazine which covers traditional, leisure, and historical interests.[1]

History and profile

The magazine was established by former railway booking clerk and advertising executive John MacMurtie in Glasgow in May 1903, following the model of the field sports magazine The Field in England.[2]

In 1931 the outdoors journal was taken over by Henry Munro, then acquired in the 1960s by Sir Hugh Fraser's Universal Investments group when it came under the wing of George Outram & Co.[2] In the 1960s the magazine achieved a 68,000 circulation.[3]

Under the editorship of Roddy Martine in 1976 the magazine was based in Edinburgh before moving to Glasgow after a management buyout. Under the editorship of Archie Mackenzie from 1994 to 2010, the magazine moved to Edinburgh, celebrated its centenary year in 2003 and in 2007 was named Consumer Magazine of the Year at the Scottish Magazine Awards. Since November 1994 Scottish Field has been owned by Howard Bennett. Its editor since 2010 is Richard Bath.[2]

Notable contributors have included Edwin Muir,[4] Bud Neill,[5] Lewis Spence,[6] Neil Gunn,[7] David Daiches,[8] Maurice Lindsay,[9][10] George Mackay Brown[11] and Marion Chesney, who was fashion editor.[12]

References

  1. ^ "Scotland - Media and publishing". Encyclopedia Britannica. Scottish Field and Scots Magazine are two well-established monthly publications covering traditional, leisure, and historical interests.
  2. ^ a b c Bootland, Morag (20 December 2019). "Take a trip back in time with". Scottish Field. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
  3. ^ "Field covers new ground". HeraldScotland. 25 August 1993. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  4. ^ Crawford, Robert (30 April 2011). The Bard - Robert Crawford - Google Books. ISBN 9781446466407. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  5. ^ "Scotland - Bud Neill, creator of Lobey Dosser: cartoonist extraordinaire". BBC. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
  6. ^ Gibbon, Lewis Grassic (15 June 2013). A Scots Quair - Lewis Grassic Gibbon - Google Books. ISBN 9780857905710. Retrieved 4 April 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 April 2020.
  8. ^ John Sutton Baglow. "Hugh MacDiarmid and the problems of the modern poet" (PhD Thesis). University of Glasgow. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
  9. ^ "About Maurice Lindsay (broadcaster)". The University of Edinburgh. 30 October 2019. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
  10. ^ "Obituaries. Maurice Lindsay (broadcaster)". Telegraph. 4 June 2009. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
  11. ^ "1971 – George Mackay Brown". Gmb Bibliography. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
  12. ^ "Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin creator MC Beaton dies aged 83". BBC News. 2 June 2020. Retrieved 3 April 2020.

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