The Bridgeman Art Library
A central source of fine art images for reproduction.
City of London Libraries
Database of all public libraries in the City of London.
http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/services/libraries-and-archives/Pages/default.aspx
The British Cartoon Archive
Holds 80,000 original cartoon drawings by British 20th century artists published in the press. It also has a non lending reference library, a photo library and an on line database with 37,000 digitised images
The National Archives
Visit to see original documents or records, or search online. Entrance is free and there is no need to book. The documents number many millions, ranging in date from the Norman Conquest to the present day.
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
From the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War, Early English Books Online (EEBO) will contain over 125,000 titles…
The Women’s Art Library
The Women’s Art Library is a resource based in the Library of Goldsmiths College facilitating the study and appreciation of work by women artists. The Library collects and preserves photographic and other documentation of work made…
The Women’s Library
The Women’s Library houses the most extensive collection of women’s history in the UK. Subjects include women’s suffrage; prostitution and trafficking; women in the workplace, public life and the church; the women’s liberation movement of the 1970s;…
https://www.lse.ac.uk/library/collection-highlights/the-womens-library
LUX Collection
The LUX Collection represents the work of many artists who work with the moving image from the 1930s to the present day.
VADS
Over 140,000 images from over 300 art and design collections in the UK, free for use in education.
Digital Art Museum (DAM)
Online resource for the history and practice of digital art. Features selected artworks, biographies, and texts of the most influential artists in the history of digital art from the 1960s to now, alongside chronologies of events…
National Art Library
The National Art Library at V&A South Kensington holds the UK’s most comprehensive public reference collection of literature on the fine and decorative arts, including books, journals, exhibition catalogues, auction house sales catalogues, comics, and e resources.
OF Open-Frames
Open Frames is an archive for performance based work, addressed to the public with the invitation to publish personal work.
Wellcome Library
The Wellcome Library, part of the Wellcome Collection, covers thousands of years of health and medicine across different cultures. Collections contain historical and contemporary books, artworks, archives and manuscripts exploring our personal and cultural relationships with health and…
Archive of Virtual Art
The Database of Virtual Art documents the rapidly evolving field of digital installation art. This complex, research oriented overview of immersive, interactive, telematic and genetic art has been developed in cooperation with established media artists, researchers…
Asia Art Archive
Collections of material on the recent history of art from Asia, available from their website and onsite library, located in Hong Kong.
Oxford Art Online
Oxford Art Online offers access to art reference works: the scholarly art encyclopedia Grove Dictionary of Art; and the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, about the sale and collection of artists’ work and artists’ biographies. Also search Oxford…
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
The Paul Mellon Centre is an educational charity established to promote and support the study of British history of art and architecture. The Centre’s activities include hosting lectures and conferences, awarding fellowships…