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OCEAN Index
An index to history on the net

NEW! PLACES IN HISTORY

See the most significant events in the history of America and Africa, located in Google Earth and Google Maps (other continents to follow). Try Egypt as an example. Or see the full menu.

Encyclopedia of Britain indexed

Try the index pages of HistoryWorld's comprehensive encyclopedia of the history, heritage and culture of Britain.

The Wellcome History of Medicine

See the medical histories and timelines by Dr Carole Reeves, specially commissioned by the Wellcome Trust for HistoryWorld.

Go straight to what you need on the web with TimeSearch

On the Timesearch timelines you can

find the events that interest you, by area, theme and date
search at a click for related information and images

Try a sample timeline - selected for
Area (North America) Theme (Politics/War)
Date (1776)

See full list of TimeSearch Timelines

HISTORYWORLD A to Z

If you know the broad subject you want to read about, you should probably go straight to the list of our 400 Histories. The titles are arranged alphabetically.

A-B C-D E-G H-L M-O P-R S T-Z

You can choose to read any History either in its Plain Text version (quicker to read, and you can print them out) or in Interactive form.

In the Interactive version of the Histories you can link at a click to Tours (letting you travel fast through time on interconnecting trails) or to WhatWhenWhere (telling you what was going on elsewhere at the time you are reading about).

In addition to the Timelines that you can create for yourself, we also have a number of Curriculum Timelines specifically designed for the UK history curriculum.

GO TO PARAGRAPH

Each paragraph in Histories and Specialist Articles has its own code, visible in the margin. If you take a note of the code, you can later go straight to the paragraph. Just click 'GO TO PARAGRAPH' below. Elsewhere this option is available at the far top right of the page.


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