MEET THE CONTRIBUTORS

Professor Murray Pittock is pro-vice principal and Bradley chair of English literature at the University of Glasgow, and principal investigator on the ‘Collected Works of Allan Ramsay’ project. Dr Brianna Robertson-Kirkland is an expert on historical musicology, currently serving as research associate on the Allan Ramsay project.

On page 23 they reflect on the making and significance of Allan Ramsay’s The Gentle Shepherd, and ask what a soon to be released new edition can do to highlight Ramsay’s legacy.

Dr David M. Smale served in the Royal Marines and Lothian and Borders Police. He studied at the Open University and the University of Edinburgh, and is presently researching various aspects of the history of policing in Scotland.

In this issue (page 30), he explores the challenging nature of the relationship between police and RAF in Berwickshire during the Second World War.

Bill Black is a retired training manager who looks at the dusty corners of late Glasgow history, chronicles all the trivia of the history of the burgh of Maryhill and likes to know if some of the ‘famous’ Glasgow stories are accurate.

On page 14, he tells the story of the widely-forgotten Glasgow plague outbreak of 1900.