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is a magazine containing articles on subjects of Scottish interest. It claims to be the oldest magazine in the world still in publication, although there have been several gaps in its publication history. It has reported on events from the defeat of the
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is the world's best-selling Scottish-interest publication, containing articles on culture, history, nature, etc., and is targeted at Scots at home and abroad. In 2013, the magazine moved to a B5 format.
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under a new owner (S. Cowan, Perth) and continued until 1893 when once again it was withdrawn. It was published between 1922 and 1924 as
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was originally published in January 1739. It was intended as a rival to the London-based
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bought the magazine, and three years later amalgamated it with the
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resumed, this time by the St Andrew's Society (Glasgow). In 1927
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In December 1887 publication resumed as a partial successor to
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took over and have continued to publish it ever since.
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The Cambridge History of English Literature, Volume 9
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Index

Scots Magazine
Scottish magazines
DC Thomson
scotsmagazine.com
ISSN
0048-9751
Jacobites
Napoleonic wars
Second World War
Scottish Parliament
Gentleman's Magazine
William Smellie
Archibald Constable
Edinburgh Review
Blackwood's Magazine
D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd
"The world's oldest magazine still being published"
Archived
A. W. Ward: The Cambridge History of English Literature, Volume 9, 2009, p. 614


"Scots Magazine and General Intelligencer"
ISBN
978-1-349-07587-4
"On this day 1739: Scots Magazine first published"
The Scotsman
"The Scots Magazine"
Official website
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The Scots Magazine, vols. 1–74, with omissions of vols. 56, 61–63, 72–73

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