British Library Timelines: Sources from History

If you have ever wished that you could just leap through some of the most important written works in history like the pages of a book, now is your chance!

The British Library has been generous enough to create an interactive, 3d timeline that includes some of the most influential written works in the history of the world, laying them out across time and space, and sortable by topic and category. Not only can students (or teachers) see how these different documents related to each other across time, but from within the timeline you can open up the documents themselves, and see high-res scanned copies of documents such as the Magna Carta, Leonardo Da Vinci's notebooks, the Declaration of Independence, and original Sherlock Holmes manuscripts.

All of these documents that normally are secured in London, at your fingertips and available to your students through the generosity of the British Library.