This site is an expanded and significantly upgraded version of the Flickr Commons based tool I wrote several years ago. As well as a major design/UX overhaul, it now includes data from further providers such as those available through Europeana, and also the Imperial War Museum. I'd welcome further suggestions as the harvesting tool and database are easily extendable.
For information, questions and bug reports please contact James Morley @jamesinealing | james@jamesmorley.net
The data has been harvested from providers using some custom php scripts to query respective APIs based on dates. Data is harmonised and stored in a local mySql database.
Additional jQuery plugins are used to enhance the display, including Masonry and Bootstrap Image Gallery (based on blueimp).
The code is openly licensed so please feel free to copy, modify, distribute as you please. It will be shared on Github shortly!
Study for 'Shipbuilding on the Clyde' - Lunch Break by a Propeller
1 February 1940
Imperial War Museum
With the 300th: Parade Outside the Battery Office at Merris, April 1940
1 April 1940
Imperial War Museum
A Street in Louvain just before the Bridge was Blown up in Front of the German advance, May 1940
1 May 1940
Imperial War Museum
Aircraft Runway in course of Construction at Thélus : near Arras, May 1940
1 May 1940
Imperial War Museum
Study for 'Shipbuilding on the Clyde' - Early Stages of a Ship. Study for 'The Template'.
1 May 1940
Imperial War Museum
Study for 'Shipbuilding on the Clyde' - Pulling an Angle-iron from a Furnace. Provisional study for 'Furnaces'
1 May 1940
Imperial War Museum
A French Lugger being Cannon-shelled by German Aircraft near Veulette : 10th June 1940
10 June 1940
Imperial War Museum
HMS Boadicea disabled by German Bombers during the Evacuation : 10th/11th June, 1940
10 June 1940
Imperial War Museum
HMS Boadicea shelling German Tanks on the Cliffs near Veulette : 10th June 1940
10 June 1940
Imperial War Museum
Signalling HMS Bulldog from the Shore, near Veulette : 10th June 1940
10 June 1940
Imperial War Museum
British and French Troops rescued by HMS Boadicea, near Veulette : 19th June 1940
19 June 1940
Imperial War Museum
In the Millbank Hospital during an Air Raid : patients being taken to the shelter
1 September 1940
Imperial War Museum
The Royal Empire Society during Mr Winston Churchill's Broadcast : 11th September 1940
11 September 1940
Imperial War Museum