Film & video archive of the renowned AP press agency. Material from 1895 onwards.

Extensive archive of newsreel footage from around the world, covering the period 1896-1984.

Free access to thousands of US government films.

Official British government films from 1945 onwards.

Amazing resource, offering constantly updated global mapping of mostly environmental & political indicators

The national map collection. See also British Library Georeferencer for historic maps overlaid onto current map locations.

Nearly 50000 historic maps, especially strong coverage of North America & Latin America 18-19th centuries.

Currently over 1000 digitised maps & atlases from the extensive collections are available.

Excellent collection of digitised maps

JISC funded project to digitise UK & European map collections.

Extensive collection of maps digitised by the University of Texas at Austin.

Over 800 digitised items from Cornell University Library, designed to promote particular points of view or political opinions.

Non-­profit mapping project, originally from University of Sheffield. Growing series of maps. Territories have been re-sized according to a variable

Based at Kent University, great source for modern British politics (many images digitised)

Holds the largest archive of post WW2 graphics in the US. Some have been digitised and are freely available.

Interesting collection of historic photographs from European news agencies hosted on the Europeana website.

Renowned collection on social & political protest, anarchism & related topics (1800-). Partly digitised - in particular the political posters.