Image and sound resources
Use these resources to find images and sound recordings for use in teaching and learning.
- BFI InView - moving images from 1920 to 2005
- Bridgeman Education - still images for educational use
- British Library Archival Sound Recordings - music, spoken word, and human and natural environments
- Education Image Gallery - replaced by MediaHub 1/8/2011
- Film & Sound Online - replaced by MediaHub 1/8/2011
- John Johnson Collection: an archive of printed ephemera
- London Broadcasting Company/Independant Radio audio archive - audio clips from 1973 to the mid-1990s
- MediaHub - video, audio and still images for educational use
- Moving image gateway - includes over 1,000 websites relating to moving image and sound materials which have been divided into subject categories
- Newsfilm Online - news clips from 1910 to the present day
- ScienceDirect - you can choose to search for the figures and tables from articles in this full text database. Select the images option in the quick search
- Screenonline - still and moving images from film and television history
The Library also has a large multimedia collection of DVDs, videos and other materials, many of which can be borrowed.
Making image and sound available via Blackboard
If you'd like to use image and sound from these resources to enhance your teaching in Blackboard, see our guidance on image and sound resources for use in teaching materials
Useful links
- University guidance on using images in teaching and research
- Edina Sound and Picture Studio
- JISC Digital Media
- Internet for image searching (INTUTE: virtual training suite)
- BUFVC (British Universities Film & Video Council)
- Visual Arts Data Service (VADS)
- Xpert media search and attribution service - search for Creative Commons licensed images and video and download them with the attribution attached