Collins was a Scottish printing company founded by a schoolmaster, William Collins, in Glasgow in 1819. In 1848, when his son Sir William Collins became a partner in the business, they became a publishing company, specialising in religious and educational books. The company was renamed William Collins, Sons & Co. in 1868. Scotland (Alba in Scottish Gaelic) is a country or nation and former independent kingdom of northwest Europe, and one of the four constituent parts of the United Kingdom. ... William Collins was a Scottish schoolmaster and publisher, founder in 1819 of Collins, one of the firms whose amalgamation produced HarperCollins. ... Glasgows location in Scotland Glasgow is Scotlands largest city, located on the River Clyde in West Central Scotland. ... 1819 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1848 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. ... Religion, a term sometimes used interchangeably with faith, is commonly defined as belief concerning the supernatural, sacred, or divine, and the moral codes, practices and institutions associated with such belief. ... A book is a collection of leaves of paper, parchment or other material, bound together along one edge within covers. ... 1868 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

In 1917, with Sir Godfrey Collins in charge, Collins started publishing fiction. William Collins, Sons & Co. published all but the first six of Agatha Christie's novels. 1917 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, DBE (September 15, 1890–January 12, 1976), was a British crime fiction writer. ...

In 1989 Collins was taken over by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Joined together with the US publisher Harper & Row, they now trade under the name HarperCollins. 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Rupert Murdoch Keith Rupert Murdoch (born March 11, 1931), Australian-born American media proprietor, is the major shareholder and managing director of News Corporation, one of the worlds largest and most influential media corporations. ... News Corporation (NYSE: NWS) is a media conglomerate that operates world-wide. ...

Collins is still used as an imprint, chiefly for wildlife and natural history books (including the on-going New Naturalist series) and field guides, as well as English and bilingual dictionaries based on the Bank of English, a large corpus of contemporary English texts. In the publishing business, an imprint is a brand name under which a work is published. ... Various species of deer are commonly seen wildlife across the Americas and Eurasia. ... Natural history is an umbrella term for what are now usually viewed as a number of distinct scientific disciplines. ... The New Naturalist books are a series published by Collins in the United Kingdom, on a variety of natural history topics. ... A field guide is a book designed to help the reader identify wildlife (plants or animals) or other objects of natural occurrence (e. ... The Bank of English is the name of the COBUILD corpus, a collection of English texts. ... In law a corpus (Latin: body) is a set, a collection of documents and sources. ...

See also

• COBUILD - a research facility set up by Collins in conjunction with the University of Birmingham.

COBUILD, an acronym for Collins Birmingham University International Language Database, is a British research facility set up at the University of Birmingham in 1980 and funded by Collins publishers. ... The University of Birmingham is the oldest of three universities in the English city of Birmingham. ...

External link

• Collins (http://www.collins.co.uk/)