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  • Black and white photograph of a person in a grey suit and dark trilby hat standing next to, and looking up at, a steam locomotive engine in a goods yard.

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    Sir Nigel Gresley

    Engineer and designer of steam locomotives, including Flying Scotsman and Mallard

  • 18th century portrait of man with long, fair coloured beard.

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    Thomas Hope

    Lawyer and co-author of the National Covenant

  • Black and white portrait photograph of a person sitting with their arms folded in an armchair. They are wearing glasses and a necklace, and behind them on a sideboard table are family photographs and a bunch of flowers in a vase.

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    Baroness Florence Horsbrugh

    First woman to serve as a cabinet minister in a Conservative government

  • Front matter page of Christian Isobel Johnstone

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    Christian Isobel Johnstone

    Pioneering publisher and advocate for social reform

  • Front matter page of Duncan Ban MacIntyre

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    Donnchadh Bàn Mac an t-Saoir

    Eighteenth-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.

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    Sorley MacLean

    Twentieth-century Gaelic poet

  • 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.

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    Sarah Siddons Mair

    Campaigner for women's education and women's suffrage

  • Black and white portrait photo of a person with a moustache in military uniform.

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    Wilfred Edward Salter Owen

    Soldier and war poet

  • An early black and white portrait photo of a person looking off to the right. They are smiling, and wearing a dark suit, white shirt and black cravat, with two holly leaves pinned to their lapel. They have large grey sideburns reaching down to their cheeks.

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    John Scott Russell

    Inventive engineer and founder of single-wave theory

  • Black and white drawing of a person in period dress wearing a bonnet-style hat.

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    Mary Somerville

    Astronomer, scientist and polymath, known as ‘the queen of science’

  • Two black and white portraits of white women, both with the appearance of white hair.

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    Louisa Stevenson / Christian Guthrie Wright

    Campaigners for women’s education and founders of Queen Margaret University

  • Young woman with short hair, photographed in side profile. Image is black and white.

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    Dorothy Emily Stevenson

    Author of over 40 popular novels

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