Gerard Carruthers Editor & Author

Gerard Carruthers FRSE is Francis Hutcheson Professor of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow. He is also General Editor of the Oxford University Press Edition of the Works of Robert Burns and Co-Editor (with Liam McIlvanney) of The Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2012). He has published several dozen essays and book-chapters on eighteenth-century literature and culture in Scotland. Don Martin is a retired librarian who serves as Secretary of the Friends of Thomas Muir. He has published many books and articles on local history subjects and is currently Co-ordinating Editor of the Scottish Local History Forum journal Scottish Local History. He is a committee member of several local history societies.