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The British Pathé site is the first digital news archive available online. Launched in July 2002, and substantially updated in November 2002, it offers access to 3,500 hours of news footage spanning almost a century, from 1896 until 1970, including footage from Pathé's famous bi-weekly newsreel, the Pathe Gazette. Can be viewed with markup to purchase, and embedded with the same ad across the video.

The British Cartoon Archive is located in Canterbury at the University of Kent's Templeman Library. It has a library, archive, and exhibition gallery, and is dedicated to the history of British cartooning over the last two hundred years. The BCA holds the artwork for more than 150,000 British editorial, socio-political, and pocket cartoons, supported by large collections of comic strips, newspaper cuttings, books and magazines.

This site forms part of the larger EuroDocs site, created by Richard Hacken at Brigham Young University. The History of the United Kingdom: Primary Documents site provides links to over one hundred documents relating to the history of the United Kingdom from the eighth century to the present day. The documents have been chosen on the grounds that they relate to key historical events. The documents linked to on the site include, for example, Ruthwell Cross runic inscriptions, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, The Statutes of William the Conqueror, the Magna Carta, The Elizabethan Homilies 1623, Proclamation of Rebellion 1775 and documents from WWI and WWII. The documents are available as transcriptions or facsimiles of the originals.