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!
[The English and Spanish fleets between Portland Bill and the Isle of Wight on 2 - 3 August 1588]. Disbound sheet. Hand coloured engraving. Scale: circa 1:300,000 (bar). Ungraduated chart of the track of the Spanish Armada. The bar scale is in English mil
1590
National Maritime Museum
Action at Bergen, 3 August 1665. An incident following the Dutch defeat at Lowestoft, which was the first fleet action of the Second Dutch War, 1665-67. A returning Dutch East India and Smyrna fleet was forced to put into Bergen, Norway, a neutral port fo
1666
National Maritime Museum
'Hayling' (1760). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the body plan, inboard profile with pencil modifications, and longitudinal half-breadth with deck details for 'Hayling' (1760), a single-masted sixty-six foot timber hoy for Portsmouth Doc
3 August 1759
National Maritime Museum
'Unity' (1707?), and 'Forester' (1748). No Scale. A plan showing the body plan, inboard profile, longitudinal half-breadth with deck details, for 'Unity' (1707?), and 'Forester' (1748), both single-masted sixty-six
3 August 1759
National Maritime Museum
Map of the country westward of Lake Ontario to the River Mississippi and southward to the 37 [degree] of north latitude intended more immediately to show the frontier boundary between the United States and the Indian Tribes as expressed in their treaty of
1795
National Maritime Museum
Loenen, Niewer Holk, the house of the artist's friend Mr Maes with figures under trees on reverse. original art: drawing
3 Aug 1838
National Maritime Museum