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Christian Isobel Johnstone

Pioneering publisher and advocate for social reform.

Front matter page of Christian Isobel Johnstone's Clan-Albin.

Andrew Keir

Versatile character actor, especially known for his work with Hammer House of Horror.

Black and white portrait photo of a person dressed as a priest and pretending to give a sermon. They are standing in a pulpit, looking down at the camera with their right arm raised into a fist as if strongly talking about something.

Charles Lapworth

Pioneer of faunal analysis using index fossils.

Black and white portrait photo of a person looking to the right of camera. They are wearing an old-style suit and thin tie, and have bushy hair around their ears.

Stan Laurel

Popular star of early cinema as part of the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy.

Black and white portrait photo of a person wearing a suit and bowler hat, pretending to talk on an old fashioned telephone. They have a sad or confused looking expression on their face.

Joseph Lee

Poet, artist, cartoonist and journalist, described as “Scotland’s forgotten war poet”.

Black and white portrait photo of a person in military uniform, with side-parted slicked down hair. They are reading a book and smoking a pipe with a long stem.

Hercules Linton

Shipbuilder who designed the Cutty Sark.

Black and white image of a man wearing formal attire of the mid 19th century, leaning on a lectern which has a closed book on it.

Donnchadh Bàn Mac an t-Saoir

Eighteenth-century Gaelic poet.

Front matter page of Duncan Ban MacIntyre's book of 'Songs and Poems in Gaelic'. The paper, which has been scanned, is old and browned, and features a picture of an deer's head and antlers.

Murdoch Mackenzie

Cartographer and hydrographer, whose maritime maps of the Orkney islands are still in use.

18th Century cartographic map of the Orkney Isles by Murdoch Mackenzie. Includes inscription: "To the Right Honourable Early of Horton, this map of Orkneyis humbly dedicated by his Lordship's most obedient and most devoted servant, Murdoch Mackenzie."

Sorley MacLean

Twentieth-century Gaelic poet.

Black and white photo of a person giving a reading, standing at a lectern. They are wearing a jacket and tie and thick-rimmed black glasses. There is a book open in front of them.

Sarah Siddons Mair

Campaigner for women's education and women's suffrage.

Black and white photograph of a person standing in profile, facing to the right. They are wearing a large dark dress of expensive-looking fabric and are holding a fan in their right hand.

Norman McLaren

Scottish-Canadian innovator, director and producer – ‘the poet of animation’.

Black and white photo of a person in a shirt and glasses leaning over a table. They are marking a series of film negatives with a pen, as light shines upwards from underneath.

Elizabeth Buchanan Mitchell

First female town planner in Scotland and campaigner for social justice.

Black and white photo of a group of 1950s schoolchildren and a person supervising them. They are at a tree planting ceremony, and the uniformed children are laughing and smiling. The person is looking sternly at them, with their hands in their coat pockets.

John Muir

Founder of modern conservation and inspiration behind the first national parks.

Black and white portrait photo of a person facing to the left. They have wild dark hair and a long wiry beard. They are wearing a suit and tie.

Sir Thomas Munro

Mountaineer best known for his list of Scottish mountains over 3,000 feet which are now known as ‘Munros’.

Black and white portrait photo of a person looking to the right of the camera. They are wearing a tweed jacket and have a beard and moustache.

Francis (Fra) Newbery

Artist director of Glasgow School of Art, who championed the ‘Glasgow style’ and the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

Black and white portrait photograph of a serious looking person wearing a suit and tie. They have a handlebar moustache and side parted hair, and they are staring off to the left.