More than 500 hours of moving-image clips and 56,000 photos have been licensed by JISC Collections for at least 25 years for UK further and higher education institutions, for publication from Summer 2010.

Following £2.5 million in funding from JISC and a competitive procurement process during the first months of 2009, eleven high-quality image collections have been licensed by JISC Collections as part of the Digital Images for Education initiative.

The key emphasis is on bringing to life “Our History” – in particular, film and digital images that capture local history, UK history and world history during the last 25 years.

Most of the images will be added to JISC Collections’ subscription-based services such as Education Image Gallery and Newsfilm Online.

Read more about the Images for Education initiative …

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Second World War poster

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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The Flood at Port-Marly

View of a flood on the left bank of the River Seine, small boats in foreground and houses beyond

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The Last of England

Group of emigrants in small boat leaving England with cliffs of Dover in background.

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Ivory panel from a book cover

Ivory carving from tenth century, exceptional as earliest known representation of choral singing

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Brussels Expo 58

Lion and unicorn display outside the British Pavilion at the Brussels Expo, 1958, designed by James Gardner

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Television set with psychedelic decoration

Television set decorated with the titles of popular television programmes, 1968.

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