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Scottish Beekeepers Association Magazine

SBA Magazine

The Scottish Beekeeper magazine is the monthly membership magazine of the Scottish Beekeepers’ Association. This magazine has been in print and circulation since July 1924 and recently celebrated its centenary edition.

Scottish Beekeeper Magazine Volume1 Centenary Cover

With contributions from authors far and wide, and advertising support from many beekeeping and related suppliers, this periodical provides Members and Affiliated Beekeeping Associations (ABAs) with the latest news, research, fun and events at a local, national and international level.

All contributions are considered for publication, so if you’d like to provide content or share your news with our readers please email our Editor on
editor@scottishbeekeepers.org.uk

If you would like to advertise in our magazine please download our rate card and contact our Editor.

Members and ABAs can provide small adverts for free.

As part of SBA membership, members have exclusive online access to the last 2 years of monthly publications, via the members’ area, and anyone can access the public archive from the years prior to that.

Magazine Archive

2020 – 2039

2000 – 2019

1980  –  1999

1960  –  1979

1940  –  1959

1924  –  1939

Using the Archive

The Scottish Beekeeper started in July 1924 and vol.1 ran to June 1925. Vols 2 and 3 followed that pattern.
However, vol. 4 started in July 1927 but continued for 18 months, ending in December 1928.
The magazines since then have all followed the January to December pattern.

The index as such is not always an alphabetical index but takes the form of a list of articles, letters and so on.The index for each year is generally to be found in that year’s December issue although sometimes it appears in the January issue that follows.
Some years are without any form of index.

Be aware that there are instances where pages are wrongly numbered or are repeated.
Roman numerals where used are not always correct [typos].

Copyright Guidance

We ask that you:

  • Make non-commercial use of these files.
  • Maintain attribution when using information from these files.
  • Please acknowledge the author and that the information came from the Scottish Beekeepers’ Association (SBA) “Scottish Beekeeper” Magazine.
  • Keep it Legal. Whatever you use, remember that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal. Do not assume that all material in these files is in the public domain. If in doubt, check with the author.
  • Whether an article is still in copyright varies with time and we cannot offer guidance on whether any specific use of any specific article is allowed.