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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]

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  2. "History and Timelines". HistoryWorld. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
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  8. 1 2 McGavin, Harvey (11 May 2008). "Ask the quiz master". TES . Retrieved 3 September 2014.
  9. 1 2 "University Challenged". Inside Out Festival. 2012. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
  10. "Wellcome Trust contribution to HistoryWorld goes live" (PDF). Wellcome History (19). February 2002.
  11. "HistoryWorld – how to cite". HistoryWorld. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
  12. Gascoigne, Bamber. "Encyclopedia of Britain". HistoryWorld. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
  13. Gascoigne, Bamber. "HistoryWorld's Places in History Richmond-upon-Thames". HistoryWorld. Retrieved 3 September 2014.