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''HistoryWorld'' currently consists of about 300 narratives and some 10,000 events on searchable timelines.<ref name="About"/> All the content (apart from the Wellcome History of Medicine, by Dr Carole Reeves)<ref name="Wellcome">{{cite journal | url=http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/stellent/groups/corporatesite/@msh_publishing_group/documents/web_document/wtd006087.pdf | title=Wellcome Trust contribution to HistoryWorld goes live | journal=Wellcome History | year=February | month=202 | issue=19}}</ref> has been written by Gascoigne.<ref name="Cite">{{cite web | url=http://www.historyworld.net/about/sources.asp | title=HistoryWorld – how to cite | work=HistoryWorld | accessdate=3 September 2014}}</ref>
''HistoryWorld'' currently consists of about 300 narratives and some 10,000 events on searchable timelines.<ref name="About"/> All the content (apart from the Wellcome History of Medicine, by Dr Carole Reeves)<ref name="Wellcome">{{cite journal | url=http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/stellent/groups/corporatesite/@msh_publishing_group/documents/web_document/wtd006087.pdf | title=Wellcome Trust contribution to HistoryWorld goes live | journal=Wellcome History | year=February | month=202 | issue=19}}</ref> has been written by Gascoigne.<ref name="Cite">{{cite web | url=http://www.historyworld.net/about/sources.asp | title=HistoryWorld – how to cite | work=HistoryWorld | accessdate=3 September 2014}}</ref>


The HistoryWorld website also includes 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.<ref name="Places">{{cite web | url=http://www.historyworld.net/placesinhistory/placesrichmond.asp?gtrack=more | title=HistoryWorld's Places in History Richmond-upon-Thames | work=HistoryWorld | accessdate=3 September 2014 | author=[[Bamber Gascoigne]]}}</ref>
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,<ref name="Britain">{{cite web | url=http://www.historyworld.net/articles/listarticles.asp?gtrack=more | title=Encyclopedia of Britain | work=HistoryWorld | accessdate=3 September 2014 | author=Bamber Gascoigne}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Places">{{cite web | url=http://www.historyworld.net/placesinhistory/placesrichmond.asp?gtrack=more | title=HistoryWorld's Places in History Richmond-upon-Thames | work=HistoryWorld | accessdate=3 September 2014 | author=[[Bamber Gascoigne]]}}</ref>


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 09:41, 3 September 2014

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 has been developing it since 1994.[5][6] It went online in 2001[7] 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 www.timesearch.info, using timelines as a way of searching the internet.[7]

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)[8] has been written by Gascoigne.[9]

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,[10] 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.[11]

References

  1. ^ a b "About Us". HistoryWorld. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
  2. ^ "History and Timelines". HistoryWorld. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
  3. ^ Midgley, Neil (8 April 2012). "Bamber Gascoigne's Diamond Jubilee challenge". Sunday Telegraph. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
  4. ^ "Bamber Gascoigne: My six best books". Daily Express. 6 August 2009. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
  5. ^ a b "University Challenge... University Re-Challenge". Keele on "University Challenge". Keele University. 2008. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
  6. ^ a b Adlam, James (19 December 2003). "New arts post for Bamber". News Shopper. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
  7. ^ a b "University Challenged". Inside Out Festival. 2012. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
  8. ^ "Wellcome Trust contribution to HistoryWorld goes live" (PDF). Wellcome History (19). February. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |year= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  9. ^ "HistoryWorld – how to cite". HistoryWorld. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
  10. ^ Bamber Gascoigne. "Encyclopedia of Britain". HistoryWorld. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
  11. ^ Bamber Gascoigne. "HistoryWorld's Places in History Richmond-upon-Thames". HistoryWorld. Retrieved 3 September 2014.

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