No 29/Autumn 2003

Scrapbook: photo of Lord Tweedsmuir at an Alberta agricultural fair, and photograph of a map on display at Haig's headquarters in the First World War

Science and the state. An address given by his Excellency the Governor-General, Lord Tweedsmuir, at the University of British Columbia, March 1939

The Busy B's: poem by Charles Graves, 1915

John Buchan and the Cotswolds, by Douglas Hurd [speech at John Buchan Society Annual Dinner 2003]

John Buchan and the National Archives of Scotland, by Donald M Abbott

Images of Africa and Africans in the fiction of John Buchan, by Olivia Coyle

Pipe, book and clipers: How a picture in the John Buchan Journal became the starting point for a lengthy quest, by Jim Robertson

Adapting John Buchan: A conversation with Richard Broke

Book News

• Running in the family
• Library edition [sale of Buchan's own copy of Churchill's The World Crisis]
• Buchan as dedicatee
• Classical Buchan

Notes and Queries

• Prescience of Buchan
• Yes, but which Thirty-Nine?
• TV Version of John McNab
• One of his readers
• Inspired to spy
• Powers of invention
• Show it, and they will come
• Buchan the Secret-Keeper
• Gnome fans