Image credits & attribution
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Credits
| Depicts | Author / creator | Source | Licence | Changes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ada Lovelace | Margaret Sarah Carpenter | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Anne, Queen of Great Britain | Michael Dahl | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | Walter Benington | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Bayeux Tapestry | Myrabella | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Ben Nevis | Loek037 at Dutch Wikipedia | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 3.0 | resized |
| Big Ben | Diliff | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY 2.5 | resized |
| Brontë family | Branwell Brontë | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Charles Darwin | Herbert Rose Barraud | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Charles Dickens | Jeremiah Gurney | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Charles I of England | Anthony van Dyck | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Charles II of England | Peter Lely | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Christopher Wren | Godfrey Kneller | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Eden Project | Jürgen Matern | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 2.5 | resized |
| Edinburgh Castle | Stephencdickson | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 4.0 | resized |
| Edward III of England | TheAncientHistorian | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Edward Jenner | Cjc13 | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 3.0 | resized |
| Edward VI of England | Attributed to William Scrots (active 1537-1553) [1] | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Edward VII | W. & D. Downey | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Elizabeth I | Unidentified painter | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Emmeline Pankhurst | Adam Cuerden | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Florence Nightingale | Henry Hering (1814-1893) | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Francis Drake | Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | Unknown author | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| George Frideric Handel | Attributed to Balthasar Denner | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| George I of Great Britain | Workshop of Godfrey Kneller | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| George II of Great Britain | Godfrey Kneller | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| George III | Allan Ramsay | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| George IV | Thomas Lawrence | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| George V | Bassano Ltd | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Giant's Causeway | Photographer unknown (Public domain) via Wikimedia Commons | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| The Great Exhibition | Dickinson Brothers | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Great Fire of London | Unknown artist | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Hadrian's Wall | quisnovus from Gloucester, England | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY 2.0 | resized |
| Henry II of England | Adam Bishop | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 3.0 | resized |
| Henry Purcell | anonymous | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Henry VIII | Hans Holbein the Younger | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Isaac Newton | James Thronill after Sir Godfrey Kneller | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Isambard Kingdom Brunel | Robert Howlett | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| James Cook | Nathaniel Dance-Holland | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| James VI and I | John de Critz | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| James II of England | Godfrey Kneller | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| James Watt | Henry Howard | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Jane Austen | Cassandra Austen | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| J. M. W. Turner | J. M. W. Turner | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| John, King of England | British – School Details on Google Art Project | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Lake District | Diliff | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 3.0 | resized |
| Loch Lomond | Abubakr Hussain, Mohammed-Hayat Ashrafi, Maaz Farooq, Farmaan Akhtar, Mohammed Shah | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 2.5 | resized |
| Loch Ness | Sam Fentress | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 2.0 | resized |
| London Eye | Khamtran | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 3.0 | resized |
| Lord Byron | Thomas Phillips | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Lough Neagh | Copernicus Sentinel-2, ESA | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 3.0 igo | resized |
| Magna Carta | Original authors were the barons and King John of England. Uploaded by Earthsound. | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Mary I of England | Antonis Mor | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Mary Seacole | Albert Charles Challen | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Michael Faraday | Thomas Phillips | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Oliver Cromwell | After Samuel Cooper | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Queen Victoria | Alexander Bassano | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Richard I of England | Matthew Paris | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Richard II of England | Unknown author | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| River Severn | The original uploader was Chrisbayley at English Wikipedia. | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 2.5 | resized |
| River Thames | Zxb | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 2.0 at | resized |
| Robert Burns | Unknown | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Robert Falcon Scott | Henry Maull (1829–1914) and John Fox (1832–1907) | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Henry Walter Barnett | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Sake Dean Mahomed | https://dams-brightonmuseums.org.uk/assetbank-pavilion/action/viewAsset?id=11198 | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Scafell Pike | Thorneh at English Wikipedia | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| William Shakespeare | Attributed to John Taylor | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Snowdon | User:Gdr | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 3.0 | resized |
| Snowdonia | Mazaruni | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 4.0 | resized |
| SS Great Britain | Hugh Llewelyn | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 2.0 | resized |
| Stonehenge | Stefan Kühn | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 3.0 | resized |
| Thomas Hardy | Bain News Service, publisher | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Tower of London | Bob Collowan | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 3.0 | resized |
| Wales Millennium Centre | grahamwell / Graham profile at Flickr website | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 2.0 | resized |
| Walter Raleigh | anonymous | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| William Blake | Thomas Phillips | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| William the Conqueror | Myrabella | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| William III of England | Godfrey Kneller | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| William Wilberforce | Anton Hickel | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| William Wordsworth | Benjamin Haydon | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Henry V of England | Unknown author | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Henry VII of England | anonymous | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Richard III of England | Barthel ii | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Edward IV of England | anonymous | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Edward VIII | Attributed to Angelo Laviosa / Formerly attributed to Vincenzo Laviosa | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Thomas Gainsborough | Thomas Gainsborough | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Joshua Reynolds | Joshua Reynolds | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| John Constable | Stephencdickson | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 4.0 | resized |
| Gustav Holst | Herbert Lambert | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Edward Elgar | Unknown | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Ernest Shackleton | Nadar | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Westminster Abbey | Σπάρτακος | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 3.0 | resized |
| St Paul's Cathedral | Mark Fosh | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY 2.0 | resized |
| Buckingham Palace | Diliff | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 3.0 | resized |
| Windsor Castle | Diliff | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY 2.5 | resized |
| Cardiff Castle | Tevfik Teker | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY 3.0 | resized |
| Parliament Buildings, Stormont | Johndmcdonald | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 3.0 | resized |
| Scottish Parliament Building | 瑞丽江的河水 | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 4.0 | resized |
| Senedd building | User: (WT-shared) Cardiff at wts wikivoyage | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| The Cenotaph | Adrian Pingstone | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Angel of the North | David Wilson Clarke | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY 2.5 | resized |
| Alfred the Great | User:Saforrest | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 3.0 | resized |
| William II of England | Matthew Paris | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Edward I of England | Remiguis Goebel | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Henry IV of England | The National Archives UK | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Henry VI of England | Poems and Romances (Shrewsbury book), illuminated by the MASTER OF JOHN TALBOT | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Edward V of England | Lorenzo Lippi | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| George VI | Matson Photo Service | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Alexander Fleming | Official photographer | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Tim Berners-Lee | Web Summit | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY 2.0 | resized |
| Francis Crick | Wikimedia Commons contributor (see source) | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY 4.0 | resized |
| Alexander Graham Bell | Moffett Studio | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| John Logie Baird | Unknown author | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Frank Whittle | British Government | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Robert Watson-Watt | Unknown author | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Stephen Hawking | NASA | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Agatha Christie | Joop van Bilsen for Anefo | Wikimedia Commons | CC0 | resized |
| Dylan Thomas | Nora Summers | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| J.K. Rowling | Daniel Ogren | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY 2.0 | resized |
| J.R.R. Tolkien | Unknown photo studio commissioned by Tolkien's students 1925/6 (private communication from Catherine McIlwaine, Tolkien Archivist, Bodleian Library) | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Henry Moore | Allan warren | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 3.0 | resized |
| Barbara Hepworth | Erling Mandelmann | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 3.0 | resized |
| David Hockney | Connaissance des Arts | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY 3.0 | resized |
| Lucian Freud | procsilas | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY 2.0 | resized |
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | James Bacon and Sons, Leeds | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Benjamin Britten | Szalay Zoltán | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 3.0 | resized |
| Andrew Lloyd Webber | premier.gov.ru | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY 3.0 | resized |
| The Beatles | Bo Trenter | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Roger Bannister | User:Pruneau | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 3.0 | resized |
| Steve Redgrave | Phil Guest (derivative by MachoCarioca) | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 2.0 | resized |
| Bobby Moore | Unknown author | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Ian Botham | Nic Redhead | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 2.0 | resized |
| Jackie Stewart | Wikimedia Commons contributor | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 2.0 | resized |
| Kelly Holmes | Russell Garner (derivative by MachoCarioca) | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 2.0 | resized |
| Ellen MacArthur | Amplified2010 | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY 2.0 | resized |
| Chris Hoy | Nicola | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 4.0 | resized |
| Andy Murray | Carine06 from UK | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 2.0 | resized |
| Bradley Wiggins | Petit Brun | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 2.0 | resized |
| Clement Attlee | Winterbergen | Wikimedia Commons | CC0 | resized |
| William Beveridge | Howard Coster | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Aneurin Bevan | Howard Coster | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | resized |
| Mary Quant | Jack de Nijs for Anefo / Anefo | Wikimedia Commons | CC0 | resized |
| Vivienne Westwood | Manfred Werner - Tsui | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 3.0 | resized |
| Alexander McQueen | Ed Kavishe / fashionwirepress.com | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY 3.0 | resized |
| Winston Churchill (statue, Parliament Square) | Tim Buss | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY 2.0 | resized |
20 image(s) are under Creative Commons and require attribution (shown above and beside the image); the remainder are public domain (credited here for transparency). To report a concern about any image, please use the report page.