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!
HMS Nelson receiving a Japanese Vessel to make Arrangements for British Ocupation Of Penang : 3rd September 1945
9 March 1945
Imperial War Museum
Troops entering a Suburb of Bremen with A Company HQ in the Foreground
1 April 1945
Imperial War Museum
Listening to the BBC in St Peter Port, Guernsey, after the Liberation in May 1945
1 May 1945
Imperial War Museum
Rangoon : May 1945, a British merchant ship unloading cargo against a background of RAF bomb damage
1 May 1945
Imperial War Museum
THE SURRENDER OF KRIEGSMARINE TO THE ALLIED FORCES AT THE END OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
9 May 1945
Imperial War Museum
Alfred Rosenberg in his Prison Cell at Neumünster : Just after his capture
19 May 1945
Imperial War Museum
HMS Argonaut, the first British ship to enter Shanghai after the Japanese surrender, September 1945
1 September 1945
Imperial War Museum
HMS Hunter: Sunderland Aircraft at Glugor, Penang: 5th September 1945
5 September 1945
Imperial War Museum
Kiirung Airfield, Formosa : 7th September 1945, with a wrecked Japanese fighter on the air-strip
7 September 1945
Imperial War Museum
Kiirung, Formosa : 7th September 1945, a Japanese hospital commandeered by the Allies for the use of liberated
prisoners
7 September 1945
Imperial War Museum
Kiirung, Formosa, 7th September 1945. Japanese officers submitting to Allied Officers and handing over the air-strip
7 September 1945
Imperial War Museum
Kiirung, Formosa, 7th September 1945. The interior of a hidden Japanese hangar
7 September 1945
Imperial War Museum
China Sea off Shanghai : 15th September 1945, Officers of a prisoner-of-war liaison team being transferred from "HMAS Quiberon"
to"HMS Colossus" by bo'sun's chair during heavy seas
15 September 1945
Imperial War Museum
Typical Malnutrition Cases: Australian and British Prisoners-of-war just released from Lintang Barracks, Kuching,
Borneo
16 September 1945
Imperial War Museum
Admiral of the Fleet Lord Cunningham of Hyndhope, KT, GCB, DSO presenting the White Ensign worn by "HMS Warspite", Edinburgh
1945
27 September 1945
Imperial War Museum
Children of British Internees at a Children's Party given by the Crew of HMS Belfast at Shanghai, 28th September 1945
28 September 1945
Imperial War Museum
The Anglo-Chinese Frontier : October 1945, The Guard-house and guards of 5th Commando inspecting a Chinese lorry for smuggled
goods entering British territory
1 October 1945
Imperial War Museum
The Nanking Road, Shanghai : Royal Marines marching in China's Victory Celebrations, October 1945
1 October 1945
Imperial War Museum
On the Twenty-Seventh Day of the Tenth Month in the Year of Our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Forty-Four...
7 October 1945
Imperial War Museum