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Images

40,000 digitised images from the paintings and drawing collections of the Courtauld Institute of Art. A free registration service which allows you to build up and save sets of images.

A huge collection of photographs.

Sheffield Hallam University's images and multi-media database. Over 24,000 images, copyright-cleared for educational use. A variety of subject areas includes art and design, built environment, tourism and leisure, and student degree shows. Search, select, enlarge and export images and their metadata; link to any page in SHIMMER from Blackboard; or create presentations to export en masse to PowerPoint and HTML.

Search tool for images, video and sound under Creative Commons licences. It includes Flickr, Google Images for images, SoundCloud and Jamendo for music, YouTube for video, and other multimedia search tools.

This resource is a library of 300,000 images of England's listed buildings, recorded at the turn of the 21st century. Images range form lamp posts to lavatories, phone boxes to toll booths, mile stones to gravestones, as well as bridges, historic houses and churches

Key news sources

Other, more specialist news sources are available, particularly for historical research.

Searching for a specific newspaper title?

You can access many national, international and regional news titles via the Ejournals A-Z.

Search for the title of the news source.

International news titles are available via Press Reader.