CREATE AND SAVE A TIMELINE

NOT YET AVAILABLE – COMING SOON

To create and save a timeline of your own, you can start either with an Existing Timeline or with a timeline already mixed to your own specification by means of the Mix a Timeline facility.

If you choose to start by mixing a timeline, you can begin with any of these three options

SELECT EVENTS SELECT IMAGES BY LOCATION SELECT IMAGES BY CATEGORY

Alternatively you can make all these selections at the same time on a large single screen menu.

Once you have selected your initial timeline to work on, you will have the facility to select and deselect individual events and images. At any time you can save the developing timeline, either for future use or as the basis for continuing to develop it.

STILL UNDER DEVELOPMENT - COMING SOON

If you are a registered member of HistoryClub, the process of creating and saving an article is simple. All you need do is write the article (up to a maximum of about 1400 words) on your computer and then copy-and-paste the text into the form which will appear when you click on Add New Article. (This link will be inactive if you have not registered in HistoryClub. Click here to register now)

The HistoryClub form also provides a box in which you must insert a title for the article. You can then use the tick boxes on the right to classify your article by Category and Region. When you next return to HistoryClub, after saving the article, it can be found from your own computer either by entering the contributor (the name of the HistoryClub member, rather than the author) or by ticking whichever Categories and Region you have specified.

Click here to see Guidelines on the process of adding an article. We strongly recommend that you print out these guidelines and have them beside you as you work.

When you have saved an Article, you can subsequently return whenever you like to edit it and, if you wish, submit it for publication in HistoryClub. Publication, making it visible to everyone, means that it will be processed in several ways by the HistoryWorld staff. It will be transferred from continuous text into the more flexible format of our published Articles. It will be incorporated in HistoryWorld’s index. And it will be illustrated with any images which you send us.

This work is time-consuming and expensive, and we need to charge for it. The costs will be as follows:

£25 for each article published

£7 for each illustration submitted to us as a jpeg of 800 pixels or more on the longer edge, or as printed material which does not need to be returned

£10 for each illustration submitted to us as printed material which needs to be returned (while every care will be taken of such material, HistoryWorld accepts no responsibility for accidental loss or damage)

For our first HistoryClub members these charges will be all that ever has to be paid. The Articles will remain online at no further cost. Subsequently the initial charges will cover an initial two years online, after which there will be a small top-up fee every subsequent two years.

There are three ways in which you can use HistoryClub. For the first you have no need to register as a member. For the other two you will have to register before the facilities are accessible.

1. You will be able to use HistoryClub as a reader. As the Club grows, more and more articles submitted by members will be available to everyone. By ticking the boxes on the right, you will be able to select from articles accessed by contributor or category or region. For the moment you can see the three sample articles listed at the end of this page.

2. You can use HistoryClub to put articles online which are written by yourself or your family or friends, or by an institution such as a school or church. Once you have clicked to save an article, it will be visible on your own computer each time you return to HistoryClub. If you also click to Submit the article, your material will be published online by HistoryWorld and will be visible by everyone. Click here for guidelines on how to Create and Save an Article.

3. You will soon be able to create and save a timeline. This facility is still under development. When available, it will enable you to create, save and email to others your own timelines of historical events and images.

SAMPLE ARTICLES

HistoryClub began on 24 June 2001 and the first submitted articles will not be online until later in the summer. As yet, therefore, the Club contains only three articles, selected to demonstrate the way in which personal and local material can be published online.

One is an autobiographical account of a family over two or three generations. This is Kathleen Joyce’s An Irish Travelling Family.

Another is a local history project by a school in Hampshire - Priestlands Heritage and Young People Project.

The third derives from Commanet, a community archive project which began in Yorkshire and is rapidly spreading. This tells the story of a Hemsworth resident Joseph Weglarski.

(For advice on how to set up a community archive project contact chris.levack@geo2.poptel.org.uk; to see the project online visit www.commanet.org)