We subscribe to several image databases, and there are many others freely available on the web.

Most have been copyright-cleared for educational use. Check with the provider if you are in any doubt about the copyright status of the image.

General image databases

To perform a general image search use the following image databases:

• Bridgeman Education
• The British Library on flickr (images from 1500–1922)
• The Commons on flickr
• Creative Commons Search
• Free Images
• Imageafter
• Internet Archive book images on flickr (from 1500–1922)
• WATCH (copyright)

Arts, design and architecture images

Search for contemporary and historic fine art, design and architecture using the following image databases:

• Art UK
• Axis: Contemporary Art
• Design Council Slide Collection
• fineart.ac.uk
• Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
• French National Museums (RMN)
• History of Advertising Trust
• Mid-Victorian wood-engraved illustration
• National Portrait Gallery
• Timeline of Art History
• Visual Arts Data Service

Biology and medical images

Search for historic and contemporary medical and biological imagery using the following image databases:

• Bioscience ImageBank
• IHM National Library of Medicine
• Museum of Natural History (US)
• Natural History Museum (London)
• Public Health Image Library (US)
• Turning the Pages National Library of Medicine
• Wellcome Images

History images

Search for historical images using the following databases:

• AICT
• British Cartoon Archive
• British Museum Images (registration required for preview access)
• Casselman Archive of Islamic and Mudejar Architecture in Spain
• Library of Congress
• Mid-Victorian Illustration
• US National Archives

Science, technology and geography images

Search for scientific, technological and geographical images using the following image databases

• ESA Multimedia Gallery
• Jodrell Bank Image Gallery
• MOSI collections
• NASA on the Commons (Flickr)
• NASA (multimedia)
• National Air and Space Museum Archives
• National Geographic Photo Galleries
• National Railway Museum
• Online Archive of California
• Science Museum (London)
• US National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS)