Resources to help you find explore, connect with and build timelines to work with your history toolkit , resources that provide interactive indexes to archives and collections for navigating your way through history and that you can embed in your own projects…
Timelines for you and your history projects
Chronology and the sequence of the events and the relationship and dependencies and connections between them, all very intriguing. Lots of tools say they help you build custom timelines but after a lo… [more]
Steve Jobs honoured with Smithsonian Patent exhibition, what is the significance and resonance with you and your history project....what were the historic origins of intellectual property, copyright a… [more]
Historical texts have long been the subject of critical analysis from the writings of the Venerable Bede to the latest releases from the National Archives. Maps too have been analyzed in great depth. … [more]
Dan Snow British pathe and an interactive app with 10,000 events interactive maps and video, an interesting attempt at curating a timeline for the whole of WWII. (For IOS iphone, Mac and Ipad [more]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's excellent timeline for setting the context of art alongside your history project, helps you navigate and find a deeper reflection of the timeline that is relevant to y… [more]
Timelines can be very useful to family historians when trying to find a simple way to view the chronology of what is often a complicated event [more]
Trying to track down and explore the lives of colonial ancestors? Use time lines to extend and enrich your family history project. [more]
BBC History of British Empire Timeline and the great insight of Jeremy Paxman's Empire series. Offering further enlightenment and insight into what it is to be British and how a better grip of the pas… [more]
A selection of interesting time lines for the county of Worcestershire UK. Time lines for the historian and genealogist to support their own particular intriguing history project [more]
The Digital Handsworth Project is a good example of how a local area can pull together a coherent, interactive site for local history [more]
BBC British History Timeline, an overview and starting point, see screencast YouTube Video and links as a baseline example for Historic timelines... [more]
The originator of the BIG HISTORY Course at Berekely Professor Watler Alavarez introducing the subject itself... [more]
History of the Universe, Earth History and Microsoft backed ChronoZoom intriguing history and IT for historians as good as it currently gets, take a look Videos and links... [more]
Roots of our history stems from the ancient Holy lands, the three great world faiths, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, this project maps the history of the Crusades. Mapping history, with great graph… [more]
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Map your history, make new connections and gain new insights into your project, a free web service for family social and local historians, just a click away... [more]