The story of Ian Collins, a member of the Collins publishing dynasty, his sporting success and bravery in WW2.
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Learn more about Muriel Spark and other Scottish authors born in 1918
Discover Glasgow through Maps and Plans spanning 250 years on ScotlandsPeople
More than 2,400 maps, plans and drawings have been added to the ScotlandsPeople site
Explore Scotland as you search for your ancestors.
Newly-discovered letters shed light on Robert Burns’ family, Excise career and radical political opinions
Learn about the lives of Alberto Morrocco, Anna MacLeod and Hugh Malcolm - all born in 1917
Read about the weddings of three allied servicemen in Scotland in 1942
Discover the lives of the operatic soprano Mary Garden and Plant Hunter George Sherriff
More than 233,000 newly-released Scottish records of births in 1917, marriages in 1942 and deaths