Time travel is one of those ideas that remains popular. The thought of stepping back into the past, not just reading about it, but actually being there, in the places and events you’ve only ever seen in history books, to witness a moment as it happened, to see familiar names as real people, or simply to stand in a place before everything changed.
What would you choose? A famous event? A quiet moment that history barely remembers? The appeal isn’t always in changing anything — often, it’s just in seeing it for yourself.
In books and in film, time travel allows us to visit the past or imagine the future.
Time Travel
Time Travel: The Science Explained Simply
Time travel is often thought of as something from science fiction. But the science behind it is both surprising and fascinating. Scientists have discovered that time does not always pass...
Time Travel: The Science Explained Simply
Time travel is often thought of as something from science fiction. But the science behind it is both surprising and fascinating. Scientists have discovered that time does not always pass...
Explore Time Travel in Fiction
If the idea of time travel fascinates you, you can explore it further in fiction — from original stories to classic and modern interpretations:
- The Time Traveller by Tony Willis — an exciting, interactive time-travel experience.
- Doomsday Book by Connie Willis — Oxford historians travelling through time to the Middle Ages with unexpected consequences.
- Blackout by Connie Willis — time-travel missions set during World War II, where history becomes dangerously unpredictable.
- All Clear by Connie Willis — a continuation of wartime time travel, where returning to the present is no longer certain.
- To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis — a lighter time-travel story blending Victorian England, humour, and historical detail.
- The Time Machine by H. G. Wells — a Victorian time-travel classic that introduced the idea of travelling far into the future.
- The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter — a modern continuation of Wells’s original vision, expanding the possibilities of time travel.
- Time by Stephen Baxter — a cosmic take on time travel and the future of humanity, stretching across vast timescales.