Library Guides: Philosophy: Images and Media

Media and Image Resources at Trent

Media Resources and Links
Trent Library's webpage of sources for media. Most of these are free sites.

National Film Board of Canada (NFB) This link opens in a new window
- Find documentaries and films about the lives of Canadians, the environment, human rights, international conflict, and more.
- Register for an NFB Campus account to create custom playlists, view study guides, and access additional educational content.
Academic Search Elite This link opens in a new window
- EBSCOhost Academic Search Elite offers a comprehensive collection of peer-reviewed journals, magazines, and newspapers across various academic disciplines.
Theatre This link opens in a new window
More than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, and more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video.

Thanhouser Films Online
A free streaming service with 50+ films from the early 1900s.
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The purpose of the IEP is to provide detailed, scholarly information on key topics and philosophers in all areas of philosophy. The Encyclopedia’s articles are written with the intention that most of the article can be understood by advanced undergraduates majoring in philosophy and by other scholars who are not working in the field covered by that article. The IEP articles are written by expert. Includes photos and images.

Guide to Finding Images

Help: Finding Images
A page on our website offering options for finding images on the web which can be legally used in your work.

Resources Containing Images

These resources contain images.

Academic Search Elite This link opens in a new window
- EBSCOhost Academic Search Elite offers a comprehensive collection of peer-reviewed journals, magazines, and newspapers across various academic disciplines.
Google: Arts & Culture This link opens in a new window
- Google Arts & Culture is a free online platform that allows users to explore and experience the world's art, history, and culture through high-resolution images, virtual tours, and interactive exhibits from over 2,000 leading museums and cultural organizations around the globe.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online This link opens in a new window
A scholarly, general purpose online encyclopedia. This is the free, public version of the encyclopedia; Trent does not have a subscription.
China: Trade, Politics, Culture, 1793-1980 This link opens in a new window
Unique manuscript material relating to the activities and observations of British and American diplomats, missionaries, business people and tourists in China from 1793 to 1980, together with rare periodicals, colour paintings, maps, photographs and drawings.
Defining Gender, 1450-1910 This link opens in a new window
Explore gender through a vast body of British source material from the fifteenth to early twentieth century. Through correspondence, advice literature, periodicals, ephemera and government documents, traditional models of gender and contemporary perceptions of these can be explored. This is an interdisciplinary resource that will enrich the teaching and research of gender, history, sociology, education and literature.
Empire Online This link opens in a new window
A wide variety of material including: Exploration journals and logs; Letter books and correspondence; Periodicals; Diaries; Official Government Papers; Missionary papers; Travel writing; Slave papers; Memoirs; Fiction; Children's Adventure Stories; Traditional folk tales; Exhibition Catalogues and guides; Maps; Marketing Posters; Photographs; and Illustrations, with many in colour.
Mass Observation Online This link opens in a new window
Original manuscript and typescript papers created and collected by the Mass-Observation organisation, together with printed publications, photographs and interactive maps. The material covers the end of the ‘Hungry Thirties’; the onset of war, the Blitz and war on the home front; the post war world, with the rise of consumerism and television.
Medieval Travel Writing This link opens in a new window
Presents manuscripts of some of the most important works of European travel writing from the later medieval period. It features a number of medieval maps such as the famous ‘Beatus’ and ‘Psalter’ maps, individual manuscript illuminations, and some modern translations of key travel texts.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography This link opens in a new window
The national record of men and women who have shaped British history and culture, worldwide, from the Romans to the 21st century. The Dictionary offers concise, up-to-date biographies written by named, specialist authors. It is overseen by academic editors at Oxford University, UK, and published by Oxford University Press.
Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007 This link opens in a new window
This extraordinary resource on trans-Atlantic slavery and abolition brings together original manuscript and rare printed material from dozens of libraries and archives across the Atlantic world. Includes pamphlets, books, paintings, maps and images. Primary documents.