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This is an amazing resource - a superb quality and quantity of material, and a beautifully designed site.

Timelines.tv points the way to the future of learning history. Very well done, Andrew - and kudos for making it free for all.

Thanks to Doug Belshaw who alerted me to this great site by Twitter. Timelines TV is a fantastic FREE resource for teachers of history, and anyone with an interest in learning about the past. It's been put together by Andrew Chater and has British history from 1066 to the present day. Our students study Medieval history so I can see uses for it in our school. I've been watching parts of the video about the Black Death and it seems pretty engaging.

It's another example of excellent free content available for teacher and student use. Remember the days of purchasing videos and the exorbitant cost of these resources? The times they are a changin' and I say more power to providers of free content. I hope teachers find these resources - especially teachers in poorly resourced schools. All students deserve good access to good teaching resources.

Very high quality content (originally filmed for the BBC) distributed in a very popular format (the timeline). And a pretty slick website to boot.

I wish I was still teaching history!

I think this site is fantastic. It's a history lovers' treasure trove!

Congratulations on this superb website. As a history adviser for Hampshire for 18 years and an OFSTED inspector, I have certainly been promoting this excellent site. Above all else it brings history alive, giving pupils clear engaging context but always pointing to the evidence base. I particularly like the use of historic sites, interpreted in an authoritative and yet accessible way, without patronising or overcomplicating. The attention it pays to chronology is exemplary.

I would like to say that your site is superb and the idea of themes through history is bang on the current thinking in terms of history teaching. I think the clips are very informative and it is very easy to navigate, so congratulations to you and those who have worked on it. Also one further point is that there are many examples from different aspects of history that are not readily available, is excellent and allows teachers to dip in and out of different aspects. I have spent long hours clipping bitesized chunks from DVDs to play and you have done this - so thank you!

There are perhaps a couple of issues, sorry to say. One is quality. I would envisage playing to a class, but when you enlarge the quality id distorted. Are there any ways in which I am doing this wrong? Also is there anyway of playing the series clips on a topic together rather than having to keep selecting the next one manually.

Overall a superb resource and thank you for making it available to us. Also the drawings in the exercise book are very impressive!

These are some of the best history documentaries I've seen, giving a very clear overview of British history.

The site is a wonderful resource, and excellently presented too.

it is really wonderful, the way history of Britain is being portrayed with apt pictures for reference. I who came inside without a clear cut view is very happy as I got a beautiful and a clear picture. Thanks a lot.

Thank you so much for this programme. I am a student of English in the first semester in Leipzig, Germany and since we are dealing with british history I was looking around in the web to get some useful information. Luckily I found this website and now it's so much easier for me to understand all the connections and developments in history. I love following Andrew Chater through Britain and time.

Again, thank you!

Hello! I just discovered your website through a colleague of mine here in Canada and I wanted to let you know that I think your timeline is fabulous. There is so much rich content and you've made it available in a very accessible, engaging way. Thanks!

I want to congratulate you on your History of Britain. I find it fascinating.

I'm preparing a course on historical and cultural contexts relevant for the history of England - this is going to be of great help!

Many many thanks! L O V E your website! Wish there were more detales life Elizabeth I and other great Kings that England had.

Hi - The site looks amazing and very easy to use. Excellent work.

I'm a student teacher of sociology (degree level) and find that your series links together social changes very well.

This looks like a fascinating site - obviously great for history, but some bits are very RS orientated. Take a look.

A great site for you world history people, especially 6th grade. Andrew Chater has created a wonderful site called Timelines.tv. It's a very nice, interactive history of Britain that features video clips from Andrew's television show.

The site features clips that can be accessed via an interactive timeline or a textual index. And being from the “wrong” side of the pond, I'm not familiar with Andrew or his show but I really like his conversational style and ability to weave history bits into the discussion.

Is there a US version?

This is a fabulous resource - very easy to navigate - and potentially excellent to use both for Key Stage 3 and A level.

Congratulations and thanks for an excellent site. A wonderful concept that actually delivers! I use the clips very regularly in class (even more so since we reorganised our curriculum along similarly thematic lines).

As a teacher of history to key stage 3 students I am very impressed by the quality and presentation of essential information about British history - the timeline format helps students to understand chronology too.

I think the Timelines website is awesome - and sorely needed. I think that your Timelines resource offers huge potential for this new style KS3 curriculum - it would be good to see it develop!

A fantastic resource which I will definitely be using in classroom at Dunbar Grammar.

Wonderful resource, very very useful. Two questions: are there any plans to add more videos? And is it possible to increase screen size?

A superb resource that enable pupils to get an overview of a thousand years of British history.