Interactive Women’s History Timeline

The Women’s History Timeline is a clever feature found on the BBC Woman’s Hour Web site (see previous post).

Across the top is a series of thumbnail photos, each representing a decade in British women’s history.  Clicking on a thumbnail launches a narration of major events illustrated by a series of photographs.  Each narration is approximately 90 seconds long.  The site includes a transcript as well.

I thought the timeline was intriguing and motivating.  It’s a great way to get an overview of British women’s history.  Being from the United States, I liked being able to compare women’s experiences in the U.K. to women’s experiences in the United States.

I would love to include something like this as an introduction to my podcast project about my mother’s experience in World War II, but alas, no time to learn more software.  The timeline appears to have been created in Flash.