Images for Education | A project to provide image-cleared images for UK educational users

Digital Images for Education is an 20-month project to provide the education community with relevant high-resolution images that can be downloaded and used for project work. The project started in January 2009.

Update August 2010
The work of selecting and collecting around 77,000 still and moving-image clips is almost complete. Following this, once evaluation of the images is finished, the collection will be transferred to an existing JISC Collections subscription-based service while a new custom-built delivery platform is being built by EDINA, JISC Collections’ partner.

Background to the project
In 2009, JISC Collections set up a procurement under EU rules inviting suppliers to provide images for the education sector. An independent team of 15 evaluators selected eleven image suppliers, including both commercial news agencies (such as AP Archive and ITN) and institutional collections (including the Royal Geographical Society, Imperial War Museum). Every image provided must meet stringent criteria for educational relevance, with a particular emphasis on recent history. Over 25 separate metadata fields are provided for each image, including GIS location coding.

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Second World War poster

This was categorised as History, Imperial War Museum, Social Science, Still Images | Tagged Home Front, Second World War

The Kensingtons at Laventie

A platoon of British soldiers standing in a village street. There is an exterior whitewashed wall in the background, snow on the ground, debris scattered around to the right, and above, a calvary cross in the top corner of the composition.

This was categorised as History, Imperial War Museum, Social Science, Still Images | Tagged First World War, military personnel, natural phenomena/time/weather, portrait/personification, self portrait, uniform, weapons, Western Front

Shore Street, Thurso

The Turnpike in Shore Street Thurso, dating from c.1686, a rotund two-storey external stair tower of an old merchant’s house. Note one of Thurso’s famous fishwives carring the catch from the harbour to her cutomers.

This was categorised as History, North Highland College, Social Science, Still Images, Technology and Industry | Tagged Fishwives, Shore Street, staircase, Turnpike

The Trinkie, Wick

The Trinkie. Generations will recall sunlit hours spent in this place where the young and not so young enjoyed themselves, oblivious to the temperature of the cold North Sea

This was categorised as History, North Highland College, Social Science, Still Images | Tagged North Sea, swimming pool, Trinkie, Wick

Gutting the Herring

James More’s herring curing station about 1920. The girls worked in “crews” of three, two gutters and one packer. If the fishing was heavy they worked on into the night in all weathers and open to the elements. In the background is the Lifeboat Station built in 1915.