History Journeys · English edition

Follow the story.
Find your own answer.

Explore a turning point through maps, people and the evidence they left behind.

Find your journey About 15 minutes · At your pace

A world of connections · AI illustration

Step into the world
Meet the people, places and ideas in their time.
Follow the evidence
Explore perspectives and the sources behind them.
Keep your discoveries
Save notes, sources and new questions.

Choose a question worth following

Where will you begin?

Three guided routes with a clear beginning and end. Cleopatra is free; the other two are included in Plus and Pro.

An imagined view of the harbour and lighthouse of ancient Alexandria — Alexandria imagined · AI illustration, not historical evidence

Free to explore

How did Cleopatra’s Egypt become part of Rome?

Follow alliances, a naval defeat and the victor’s own account of conquest.

Alexandria Actium Roman Egypt

15 minutes7 guided stepsSources attached

Start the free journey

Read every step without an account.

Plus & Pro

Why did the Roman Republic give way to one-man rule?

Follow a civil war into the political settlement Augustus described as a restoration.

15 minutes6 steps

Preview the journey

Portrait of Henry VIII, a later Tudor king — Henry VIII · the later dynasty

Plus & Pro

How did the Tudors obtain and keep the crown?

Connect a battlefield victory, a dynastic marriage and the evidence behind a royal claim.

15 minutes6 steps

Preview the journey

Follow your own curiosity

A different question in mind?

Search for a person, place or event, then explore its dates and recorded connections in the results. Source exploration is free.

Search history

Your discoveries, together

A notebook for the next question.

Collect sources and your own notes.

Open My History Notebook

Visitors save progress and notes on this device. Signed-in notebooks sync across devices. You can import earlier device discoveries from your notebook.