[jamessb]

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

[1]: https://timelinesrevisited.github.io/preprint.pdf

[2]: https://timelinesrevisited.github.io/

[3]: https://timelinestoryteller.com/