This giant, ambitious chart fit neatly with a trend in nonfiction book publishing of the 1920s and 1930s: the “outline,” in which large subjects (the history of the world! every school of ...

A British copy called The Wall Chart of World History, was published in 1890 by the Irish geologist Edward Hull (ca 1829-1917). It was incorrectly attributed to him when he added a geological strata, ...

It all began when he saw a copy of a world history timeline by Oxford that came out in 2011. “I felt only Europe was truly represented in it. It had little from the rest of the world,” he says.