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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Looking for new content for your blog? Need inspiration for your upcoming posts? With Histropedia you can embed any timeline on your blog for free and now we have started collecting timelines to help you find cool …

We have laid the groundwork for the timeline directory, now we need your help to turn it into the amazing resource we know it can be, join us and help create a new and engaging way to explore the ‘Sum of all Human …

With these two major features we are taking a huge step towards the final vision of creating a new resource that will allow all of history to be explored, compared, and analysed in an engaging and interactive …

Priority Display, Embedded Timelines, Automatic timeline creation and more! Histropedia beta v0.6 was released recently and sees the arrival of some fundamental features towards our end vision, including some really cool …

Great News! We've added embedding timelines to the next release, and it’s going to be FREE! Our goal with this feature is to provide a resource that will allow you to easily add an extra level of engagement to your …

The next major feature for Histropedia is on its way, Priority Display will make a huge difference to the site and bring us a step closer to the timeline of everything. What does Priority Display do? Priority Display …

We are excited to announce some major changes to the event editing system and an increase in the available zoom levels. The new editing options allow events to be pinned to the exact dates they occurred and the extra …

Hello Everyone, We’re still waiting for the latest deployment to go live and expect to have the ‘Zooming in Further’ feature ready for testing sometime during the week. With not much else to talk about this week I felt …

Hello Everyone, Last week I promised some details on a new major feature that will be deployed soon, the feature is ‘Zooming in Further’ and should be live before the end of the month. Finally we will be able to assign …

Getting Started with Histropedia Here's a quick video giving a brief overview of how to use the latest beta version of Histropedia. It will be up on the How it Works page very soon. We will be making more videos going …

Histropedia BETA v1.0!! The big news this month is the launch of our first official public beta version. There is still a long way to go till we get a product that is ready for the mass market, but for anyone with a …

The final stages of development are under way and the beta version of Histropedia will be launching soon, hopefully in the summer of 2013. So now seems like a good time to take a look at some of the latest designs for …