HistropediaJS 1.4.0 is centred around one major new capability: timeline lanes. You can now organise articles into separate horizontal lanes while keeping a single shared timeline axis. That makes it much easier to build …

HistropediaJS 1.3.0 (4 Dec 2025) is a big quality-of-life release: no external dependencies, HiDPI-ready rendering, pluggable article card layouts, and a range of APIs that make timelines easier to customise, observe, …

Histropedia Sheets is a new free tool for creating interactive timelines from spreadsheets published online with Google Sheets. It allows you to create custom timelines for any purpose using simple spreadsheet knowledge …

HistropediaJS v1.2.0 is now available 😊 The latest instalment is ready for lift off, with some really cool new features and an equally exciting huge boost in performance! Read on for a walk through some of the …

HistropediaJS v1.1.0 is now available! This is a major new release with significant improvements to the core library, including a massive boost to the available zoom levels, upgraded zoom logic, built in pinch to zoom …

This post is a follow up to the session I hosted at WikidataCon 2017 along with Stuart Prior from WikimediaUK (standing in for John Cummings, Wikimedian in Residence at UNESCO) Data partnerships with reputable third …

Screenshot from the tool showing paintings by Vincent Van Gogh Two years ago, I attended Wikidata's 3rd birthday celebrations in the Wikimedia Deutschland offices in Berlin. One thing that stuck out to me was the amazing …

In our opinion WikidataCon 2017 was a resounding success. We re-connected with many fellow Wikimedians and met new connections both inside and outside of the Wikimedia Community. The mood of the conference was one of …

During the next few months we're rolling out some very cool new features and options and for HistropediaJS, our JavaScript library for creating interactive timelines. This includes some impressive looking animations and …

Making use once of Wikidata, and our new tool for creating live timelines from their ever expanding database, we have put together a few timelines of previous Academy Award Oscar winners. The timelines are created live …

Have you seen our new Wikidata timeline creator? It lets us make filterable timelines live from Wikidata (Wikipedia data) and the results are very impressive!! Below are some of the latest timelines created by us and …

This special Showcase timeline shows the presidencies of all 47 Presidents of the United States, and has colour coded filters showing the political party of the president while in office. OPEN TIMELINE IN A NEW WINDOW TO …

When we are busy creating new things, we sometimes forget to tell the world what we are doing. So here is a long overdue and hopefully very exciting update on what's being going on at Histropedia recently. HistropediaJS …

Explore an interactive timeline of albums by American singer-song writer Bob Dylan, colour coded by Live, compilation and studio albums. Timeline unavailable: CLICK HERE TO OPEN THE TIMELINE IN A NEW WINDOW Timeline …

Explore a slice of British film history with our timeline of James Bond films, colour coded by the actor who played the world's most famous spy in each film. Timeline unavailable: CLICK HERE TO OPEN THE TIMELINE IN A NEW …

By combining and colour coding existing timelines we created a film directors comparison timeline to compare four of the greatest directors in history. Timeline unavailable: CLICK HERE TO OPEN THE TIMELINE IN A NEW …

Our newly colour coded timeline of Isaac Asimov novels by series lets you easily follow the history of each series. Timeline unavailable: CLICK HERE TO OPEN THE TIMELINE IN A NEW WINDOW Timeline unavailable: Novels by …

Any regular readers out there may have noticed a drop recently in blog posts, don’t fear this was a temporary pause while we concentrated on a few other projects. One of these is a new portal site which should be coming …

The highly anticipated Batman v Superman film is almost here and we are about to see the world’s two most famous superheroes appear on the big screen at the same time. That’s not to say both characters don’t have a rich …

This is a selection of interactive timelines relating to events that took place on this day in history. Histropedia is free to use, and that includes embedding timelines on your blog or site. You can find thousands of …