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With more than two million images available for licensing covering all aspects of history, and including prestigious collections such as the ILN, National Archives, Medici Society and Historic England, we are the UK's leading specialist source for historical images and cinema. Our cinema collection includes Ronald Grant, The Everett Collection and exclusive representation of STUDIOCANAL. Please login to access our cinema images, or click here for more information.

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The Inquisitive Archivist Poems and Pictures Picturing the Great War

Important dates from history and inspirational ideas and images to illustrate your stories up to 2020.

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The Illustrated London News

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The Sandra Lousada Collection

Theatre, art, fashion and celebrity

Land of Lost Content

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Sandra Lousada grew up amidst a circle of actors, writers and artists. In the late 1950s she found her calling as a photographer. Her fascinating body of work spans theatre, art, fashion and celebrity and includes portraits of David Hockney, Edith Evans, Jean Shrimpton, Laurence Oliver and Benjamin Britten, often captured in moments of spontaneity at home.

Prepare yourself for a trip down memory lane as we present to you the extensive collection of the Land of Lost Content Museum. The collection reflects the changing tastes of society through a compelling mix of leaflets, magazines, badges, objects, catalogues, cards, collectibles and slogans guaranteed to elicit the words, 'I remember that!'

Feilds of Battle Somme 100 Exhibition

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