{{Short description|Scottish monthly magazine}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox magazine | title = Scottish Field | image_size = | image_caption = | editor = | frequency = Monthly | category = Cultural magazine | company = Wyvex Media Ltd | firstdate = 1903 | country = Scotland | based = Edinburgh | website = [https://www.scottishfield.co.uk/ scottishfield.co.uk] | issn = 0036-9209}} '''''Scottish Field''''' is a Scottish monthly magazine which covers traditional, leisure, and historical interests.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Scotland/Cultural-institutions#ref44575|title=Scotland - Media and publishing|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|quote=''Scottish Field'' and ''Scots Magazine'' are two well-established monthly publications covering traditional, leisure, and historical interests.}}</ref>
==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.<ref name="auto">{{cite web|last=Bootland|first=Morag|url=https://www.scottishfield.co.uk/culture/take-a-trip-back-in-time-with-scottish-field/|title=Take a trip back in time with|work=Scottish Field|date=20 December 2019 |accessdate=3 April 2020}}</ref>
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.<ref name="auto"/> In the 1960s the magazine achieved a 68,000 circulation.<ref>{{cite news|title=Field covers new ground|url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12722015.field-covers-new-ground/ |accessdate=2 April 2020|work=HeraldScotland|date=25 August 1993}}</ref>
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.<ref name="auto"/>
Notable contributors have included Edwin Muir,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZhtQrQr4E4QC&q=Edwin+Muir+%22Scottish+Field%22&pg=PR10|title=The Bard - Robert Crawford - Google Books|isbn=9781446466407|accessdate=2 April 2020|last1=Crawford|first1=Robert|date=30 April 2011|publisher=Random House }}</ref> Bud Neill,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/arts/bud_neill_creator_of_lobey_dosser.shtml|title=Scotland - Bud Neill, creator of Lobey Dosser: cartoonist extraordinaire|work=BBC|access-date=3 April 2020}}</ref> Lewis Spence,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fbK8BQAAQBAJ&q=%22compton+mackenzie%22+%22scottish+field%22&pg=PT15|title=A Scots Quair - Lewis Grassic Gibbon - Google Books |isbn=9780857905710 |accessdate=4 April 2020|last1=Gibbon |first1=Lewis Grassic |date=15 June 2013 |publisher=Birlinn }}</ref> Neil Gunn,<ref>{{cite journal|author=Margery Palmer McCulloch|title=Reshaping Scotland: Ireland, Europe and the Interwar Scottish Literary Renaissance Movement |journal=Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies|volume=1|issue=1|url=https://www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/content-images/JISSv1.1_OpenAccess.pdf|accessdate=4 April 2020}}</ref> David Daiches,<ref>{{cite web|author=John Sutton Baglow|title=Hugh MacDiarmid and the problems of the modern poet |url=http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2977/1/1973buglowphd.pdf|work=University of Glasgow|accessdate=4 April 2020|format=PhD Thesis}}</ref> Maurice Lindsay,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/library-museum-gallery/crc/research-resources/scottish-literature/lindsay/about|title=About Maurice Lindsay (broadcaster)|work=The University of Edinburgh|date=30 October 2019|accessdate=4 April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/books-obituaries/5446371/Maurice-Lindsay.html|title=Obituaries. Maurice Lindsay (broadcaster)|work=Telegraph|date=4 June 2009|accessdate=4 April 2020}}</ref> George Mackay Brown<ref>{{cite web|url=https://gmbbibliography.wordpress.com/category/1971/|title=1971 – George Mackay Brown|work=Gmb Bibliography|accessdate=4 April 2020}}</ref> and Marion Chesney, who was fashion editor.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-50974575 |title=Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin creator MC Beaton dies aged 83|work=BBC News|date=2 June 2020|accessdate=3 April 2020}}</ref>
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==External links== *{{official|https://www.scottishfield.co.uk/}} *[http://www.allmediascotland.com/press/84165/the-media-in-figures-scots-magazines-circulation-figures/ circulation figures] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200329122619/http://www.allmediascotland.com/press/84165/the-media-in-figures-scots-magazines-circulation-figures/ |date=29 March 2020 }} *[https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/11892215.buy-out-at-holmes-mcdougall/ Buy-out at Holmes McDougall], HeraldScotland
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