HistoryWorld

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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.{{cite web | url=http://www.historyworld.net/about/about.asp?gtrack=pthbc | title=About Us | work=HistoryWorld | accessdate=3 September 2014}} It was established by Bamber Gascoigne{{cite web|url= http://www.historyworld.net/ |title=History and Timelines |work=HistoryWorld |accessdate=2 May 2010}}{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/the_queens_diamond_jubilee/9193030/Bamber-Gascoignes-Diamond-Jubilee-challenge.html | title=Bamber Gascoigne's Diamond Jubilee challenge | work=The Sunday Telegraph | date=8 April 2012 | accessdate=3 September 2014 | author=Midgley, Neil}}{{cite news | url=http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/books/118755/Bamber-Gascoigne-My-six-best-books | title=Bamber Gascoigne: My six best books | work=Daily Express | date=6 August 2009 | accessdate=3 September 2014}} who started developing it in 1994.{{cite web | url=http://www.keele.ac.uk/alumni/thekeeleoralhistoryproject/keeleonuniversitychallenge/ | title=University Challenge... University Re-Challenge | publisher=Keele University | work=Keele on "University Challenge" | date=2008 | accessdate=3 September 2014}}{{cite news | url=http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/443816.print/ | title=New arts post for Bamber | work=News Shopper | date=19 December 2003 | accessdate=3 September 2014 | author=Adlam, James}} It went online in June 2001{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2001/jun/19/newmedia | title=Gascoigne makes interactive history | work=The Guardian | date=19 June 2001 | accessdate=27 February 2016}}{{cite news | url=http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=349066 | title=Ask the quiz master | work=TES | date=11 May 2008 | accessdate=3 September 2014 | author=McGavin, Harvey}}{{cite web | url=http://www.insideoutfestival.org.uk/2012/events/university-challenged/ | title=University Challenged | publisher=Inside Out Festival | date=2012 | accessdate=3 September 2014}} and in 2002 it won the New Statesman New Media award for the best educational website. In 2007 Gascoigne launched a related site, at [http://www.timesearch.info TimeSearch] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080515144345/http://www.timesearch.info/ |date=15 May 2008 }}, using timelines as a way of searching the internet.

HistoryWorld currently consists of about 300 narratives and some 10,000 events on searchable timelines. All the content (apart from "The Wellcome History of Medicine", by Dr Carole Reeves){{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 |date=February 2002 | issue=19}} has been written by Gascoigne.{{cite web | url=http://www.historyworld.net/about/sources.asp | title=HistoryWorld – how to cite | work=HistoryWorld | accessdate=3 September 2014}}

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,{{cite web | url=http://www.historyworld.net/articles/listarticles.asp?gtrack=more | title=Encyclopedia of Britain | work=HistoryWorld | accessdate=3 September 2014 | author=Gascoigne, Bamber | author-link=Bamber Gascoigne }} 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.{{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=Gascoigne, Bamber | author-link=Bamber Gascoigne }}

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".