Scottish Field

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.

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.. In the 1960s the magazine haed a circulation o 68,000.

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.

Weel-kent contreibutors hae includit Edwin Muir, Bud Neill, Lewis Spence, Neil Gunn, David Daiches, Maurice Lindsay, George Mackay Brown an Marion Chesney, that wis fashion editor.