Society, Politics & Law
Timeline: LGBTQ History
Explore some snapshots of LGBTQ history with our timeline.
History & The Arts
High Street History
Learn the secrets of the past, revealed by clues on the high streets of today...For a non-interactive version, you can explore with our High Street History: Just the facts.
History & The Arts
Herodotus and the invention of history
...history' comes from). Explore how Herodotus puts together his enquiry and learn how he makes the problem of finding out what happened to ours too...With the information explosion online, how can you tell fake news from the real thing, or be more sensitive to how information can be weaponised? In the fifth century BCE, a Greek by the name of Herodotus faced a similar...
Society, Politics & Law
A brief history of the lens
...history of the lens, how technology has impacted on what the human eye can see, and extended the possibilities of what humans could explore? ...Technology and art have always been connected, from the first tools and pigments used to make prehistoric cave art, to the present-day questions that artists ask of our relationship to the world around us. Technology has had a...
History & The Arts
A brief history of Science
...history and developments in science and technology. It shows something of the parallel development of human communication and of science and its technological applications, set in the context of Earth history as a whole. The years before present (BP) shown in this table are, of course, approximate, in that they merely imply 'about that long ago'. As far as the older times...
History & The Arts
Herodotus 'The Histories': a timeline
...Histories’. Herodotus counts by generations, for example the kings of the Mermnads dynasty, ruling from c.680 - 547 BC in Lydia, form the background for Book 1: Gyges, Ardys, Sadyattes II, Alyattes and finally, his son Croesus who we look at in some detail. It has been argued that generational calculation was a standard way for early historians to come up with dates,...
History & The Arts
A brief history of evolution
...families these days have more or less the same number of offspring means that human evolution has effectively stopped. On the idea that human evolution might have stopped: "I really just know about snails, and the beauty of evolution is that it gives biology a structure, so the rules that apply to snails or to fruit flies to some extent apply to ourselves. Obviously...
Money & Business
A brief history of advertising
Advertising has changed over the years. We take a look back in time, from the examples in Pompeii preserved in volcanic ash, to the digital era of today...Find out more about The Open University's Business and Management courses In 1477 William Caxton printed what could be described as Britain’s first advert, for a book called The Pyes of Salisbury. But advertising...