Showing posts with label Timeline. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Timeline. Show all posts

Sunday, 1 June 2014

Serendipity Sunday - The Coolest Timeline.... Ever!


 
 




As I was researching my Ancestors place in the 1700’s I happened upon this British Library website that has the coolest timeline I have seen online.  It is interactive and I can spend hours there going through all the entries.


Click Browse to choose a century, from 1200 to 2000.  Use the dropdown menu to change the timeline category – Politics & Power, Medicine, Literature & Music, etc...

Click on Launch Flash Timeline. Pick an event... gives an intro, image, and perhaps a transcript or a video. Some decades have more than one event.  Click on the years you want and they will be displayed.

You can add to favourites, and print or download as a pdf.  (I think they thought of everything!

This English Song is in 1240 (there are 2 items in this decade), and offers an intro, and image and a transcript of the song.

 




Enjoy the tour – I love this!
 
Link:
British Library: Learning - Timeline
 
 
 
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