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From Mary Evans ‘A Jubilant Reminder’: With the UK celebrating the first ever royal Platinum Jubilee, it’s no surprise that the news stands are full of special issues commemorating Her Majesty’s 70 years on the throne. The Illustrated London News, the world’s first illustrated paper, launched 180 years ago in May 1842, was a pioneer…

Today 22 April is Earth Day 2022, what better time For Nature Picture Library to launch their New Life showreel, celebrating spring as a season of birth and renewal in the natural world? This year the Earth Day theme is Invest in our Planet – people, businesses and governments urgently need to take action together…

This week sees the UK publication of FLAMINGO by Claudio Contreras Koob and Martha A. Salazar, with the US edition due to follow next week. Nature Picture Library was delighted to work closely with the authors and publisher teNeues Media to bring this beautiful work to publication. FLAMINGO is a celebration and in-depth study of…

Caricature, the art of exaggerating or simplifying an individual’s physical appearance or characteristics for satirical, political or celebratory effect, has a long and laughter-filled history. In fact, if you type ‘caricature’ into our website, there are more than 4,500 portraits where jug ears, bulging eyes, lantern jaws, frizzy hair, knobbly knees, shiny pates, bushy beards,…

Earlier this month was International Women’s Day and with this in mind Royal Armouries Image Library want to share their Women in War collection with you. This online image library features varied roles women have played in the art of warfare throughout history. From the mysterious 14th-century female fencer, Walpurgis, seen in Royal Armouries Image…

Nature Picture Library have added almost 2000 new stills and clips to their site over the last month. Look out for European birds and butterflies in action, stoats in winter, a fantastic range of marine life from tropical and cold waters, chimpanzee behaviour, and wide-ranging coverage on Australian wildlife from new contributor and bat specialist…

DACS Artimage are delighted to announce a bumper selection of new artists joining their collection whose artworks are ready to license for your projects. New artists include Stephen Chambers, Elizabeth Magill, Alberta Whittle, Tom Hammick and Bobby Baker. Artimage is a digital image solution dedicated to sourcing and licensing exceptional modern and contemporary art. It offers a streamlined service for your…

For anyone who has had the good fortune to visit the Museum of Brands and Packaging in London’s Notting Hill, they will know it is an intoxicating trip back in time, through more than a century of life as told through the things we bought, ate, read, washed and played with. The museum is based…

UN World Wildlife Day – restoring ecosystems Thursday 3 March 2022 was UN World Wildlife Day, with the theme “Recovering key species for ecosystem restoration”. This year the focus was on the most critically endangered species of wild fauna and flora, and why we need to conserve them in order to restore the world’s damaged…