The actual dates of her service are not known, although there is some speculation that she may have joined following the death of her only brother at the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917[2] and she had returned to Edinburgh by 1920.
[1] [3] This was an unusual achievement for a woman: only four women were awarded the Ph.D. in history from the University of Edinburgh prior to the Second World War.
[4] Following the publication of the work by Edinburgh University Press, G. P. Insh, in his review, noted the value of her scholarship in situating 16th-century Scottish history within its European context.
[6] The 1920s–30s was also a significant period in the development of Scottish archaeology and saw the publication of the first authoritative guidebooks to national heritage sites.
James Richardson, Scotland's first Inspector of Ancient Monuments, invited Marguerite Wood to coauthor the first guidebook, to Edinburgh Castle, in 1929.