Scottish Field Explained

Scottish Field
Frequency:Monthly
Category:Cultural magazine
Company:Wyvex Media Ltd
Firstdate:1903
Country:Scotland
Based:Edinburgh
Website:scottishfield.co.uk
Issn:0036-9209

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]

External links

Notes and References

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

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