[1] 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.
Since November 1994 Scottish Field has been owned by Howard Bennett.
[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.