For timelines, the book "Cartographies of Time" [0] has lots of historical examples. There is also a recent presentation of the design space of timelines in "T

For timelines, the book "Cartographies of Time" [0] has lots of historical examples. There is also a recent presentation of the design space of timelines in "Timelines Revisited: A Design Space and Considerations for Expressive Storytelling" [1, 2]. This then developed into the Timeline Storyteller tool [3]. [0]: https://papress.com/products/cartographies-of-time https://papress.com/products/cartographies-of-time [1]: https://timelinesrevisited.github.io/preprint.pdf https://timelinesrevisited.github.io/preprint.pdf [2]: https://timelinesrevisited.github.io/ https://timelinesrevisited.github.io/ [3]: https://timelinestoryteller.com/ https://timelinestoryteller.com/