Dr Norman Watson was a journalist with The Courier in Dundee for 25 years and wrote more than 5,000 news features for the paper. He remains a Courier columnist and is now publishing giant DC Thomson’s company historian. An award-winning author, his books include the bestselling Dundee: A Short History (2006), The Biography of William McGonagall (2010), the internationally acclaimed Dundee Dicshunury (2012) and Eh Hud Ma Ehe on a Peh (2016). As a historian he has co-curated major exhibitions in Dundee, London and Edinburgh and in 2006 was invited to open the Scottish Parliament’s first-ever public exhibition.