‘he writes with verve and panache that rivals anything that has gone before’

In 2022, the Scotsman wrote: ‘Consult Professor Pittock’s Wikipedia entry, and you will be astonished…How, you may ask, can one man be so knowledgeable, so industrious, so sociable, so intellectually curious, such a master of both the digital and established academic worlds. Is he an individual or an industry?’ In the same year, Scottish Field described him as ‘an extraordinary polymath whose ability to cover a vast subject area is breathtaking…his scope is vast and he writes with verve and panache that rivals anything that has gone before’.

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Painting credit: Edwaert Collier: ‘Trompe l’oeil, Letter Rack’ (©The Hunterian, University of Glasgow)