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This article examines the role of the literary agent A.P. Watt in the successful marketing and global dissemination of the work of the popular Scottish writer 'Ian Maclaren' (Rev. John Watson). Based on extensive archival research, it analyses the magazines and periodicals which published his work in Britain and America and demonstrates the continued impact of his writing in the Scottish media in the twentieth century.
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This article draws on new documentary evidence to discuss in detail the publishing history of the novels of the Scottish writer Catherine Carswell.
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This article critically examines the evolution of J.M. Barrie's final prose work, from working notes and manuscript to its two extant published versions.
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This essay discusses ideas of landscape in nineteenth-century Scottish literature, art, photography and tourism, showing the pervasive influence of the works of Sir Walter Scott on constructions of Scotland and Scottish identity.
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2011 is the centenary year of the short paper (Wilson,1911) first describing the cloud chamber, the device for visualising high-energy charged particles which earned the Scottish physicist Charles Thomas Rees (‘CTR’) Wilson the 1927 Nobel Prize for physics. His many achievements in atmospheric science, some of which have current relevance, are briefly reviewed here. CTR Wilson’s lifetime of scientific research work was principally in atmospheric electricity at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge; he was Reader in Electrical Meteorology from 1918 and Jacksonian Professor from 1925 to 1935. However, he is immortalised in physics for his invention of the cloud chamber, because of its great significance as an early visualisation tool for particles such as cosmic rays1 (Galison, 1997). Sir Lawrence Bragg summarised its importance:
