[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.
[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.
[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".