HistoryWorld is an interactive online history encyclopaedia that seeks to make world history more easily accessible through interactive narratives and timelines. [1] It was established by Bamber Gascoigne [2] [3] [4] who started developing it in 1994. [5] [6] It went online in June 2001 [7] [8] [9] and in 2002 it won the New Statesman New Media award for the best educational website. [5] [6] In 2007 Gascoigne launched a related site, at TimeSearch Archived 15 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine, using timelines as a way of searching the internet. [9]
HistoryWorld currently consists of about 300 narratives and some 10,000 events on searchable timelines. [1] All the content (apart from "The Wellcome History of Medicine", by Dr Carole Reeves) [10] has been written by Gascoigne. [11]
The HistoryWorld website, which is free to use, also contains more than 5000 entries from Gascoigne's Encyclopedia of Britain, originally published by Macmillan in 1993, [12] and a pilot project, Places in History for Richmond-upon-Thames, which uses placemarks in Google Maps to identify the exact position of a building, street or other feature, with a satellite view of the location. The maps then link to pages in HistoryWorld for historical details, images and timelines. [13]
Harvey McGavin, writing in the TES, said that the history website "is remarkably easy to navigate" and "should help teachers and pupils find all the answers". [8]
HistoryWorld is an interactive online history encyclopaedia that seeks to make world history more easily accessible through interactive narratives and timelines. [1] It was established by Bamber Gascoigne [2] [3] [4] who started developing it in 1994. [5] [6] It went online in June 2001 [7] [8] [9] and in 2002 it won the New Statesman New Media award for the best educational website. [5] [6] In 2007 Gascoigne launched a related site, at TimeSearch Archived 15 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine, using timelines as a way of searching the internet. [9]
HistoryWorld currently consists of about 300 narratives and some 10,000 events on searchable timelines. [1] All the content (apart from "The Wellcome History of Medicine", by Dr Carole Reeves) [10] has been written by Gascoigne. [11]
The HistoryWorld website, which is free to use, also contains more than 5000 entries from Gascoigne's Encyclopedia of Britain, originally published by Macmillan in 1993, [12] and a pilot project, Places in History for Richmond-upon-Thames, which uses placemarks in Google Maps to identify the exact position of a building, street or other feature, with a satellite view of the location. The maps then link to pages in HistoryWorld for historical details, images and timelines. [13]
Harvey McGavin, writing in the TES, said that the history website "is remarkably easy to navigate" and "should help teachers and pupils find all the answers". [8]