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!
A Distressed Sailor. Destitute sailors temporarily without a ship or more often invalided out of service were a common sight both in Britain and abroad. While the loss of a limb might not effect the opportunities of a senior officer, for example Lord Nels
1 Jan 1801
National Maritime Museum
Foreign Amusements or the British Lion on the Watch (caricature). Hand-coloured.
1 Jan 1801
National Maritime Museum
Henry D'Esterre Darby Esqr. Captain of His Majesty's Ship Bellerophon. Print
1 Jan 1801
National Maritime Museum
Investigator (1801). No scale (possibly 1:48). Plan showing the elevation and plan for the quarter deck illustrating the garden room on Investigator (1801), as proposed (and approved) for fitting her as a Discovery Vessel. Note: she is still referred to
1 January 1801
National Maritime Museum
Investigator (1801). No scale (possibly 1:48). Plan showing the upper deck (part quarter deck) illustrating the arrangement of the cabins for the 'principal gentlemen' on Investigator (1801), as proposed and approved for fitting her as a Discov
1 January 1801
National Maritime Museum
Norfolk Hospital, Greenwich [Trinity Hospital]. Trinity Hospital, East Greenwich, founded in 1613 by Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, here shown before being somewhat remodelled externally in 1812 in its present 'Gothick style', and with its w
1 January 1801
National Maritime Museum
Perrys Dock Yard Blackwall. The Blackwall shipyard, begun in the late 16th century, continued, under various owners, to repair and build ships, particularly for the East India Company, throughout the 17th and 18th centuries. By the late 18th century Perry
1 Jan 1801
National Maritime Museum