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!
'Courageux' [4 Nov 1805]. A study of the hull of the 74-gun 'Courageux', which fought at Trafalgar, inscribed accordingly by the artist. Why it has been dated 4 Nov 1805 – in a much later hand than Pocock's – is not y
National Maritime Museum
Early in Action. English - - - Namur coming into the line from Sd. Sir R Strachan & Dumanoir 4 Sail All Captured. original art: drawing
4 Nov 1805
National Maritime Museum
Letter written by Robert Hope, HMS TEMERAIRE, to his brother John Hope.. The letter was written by Robert Hope to his brother John while the former was still onboard the TEMERAIRE as she lay off Portsmouth. The letter was produced just two weeks after the
1805-11-04
National Maritime Museum
Sir Richard Strachan's Action, Ferrol 4 November 1805. original art: drawing
4 Nov 1805
National Maritime Museum
Strachan's Action after Trafalgar, 4 November 1805. One of a pair of paintings showing an incident from the Napoleonic War, 1803-15. After their defeat at Trafalgar in 1805, the remnants of the Franco-Spanish fleet dispersed and sought safety to seaw
1807
National Maritime Museum
Strachan's Action after Trafalgar, 4 November 1805: Bringing Home the Prizes. One of a pair of paintings showing an incident from the Napoleonic Wars 1803-15. After their defeat at Trafalgar in 1805, the remnants of the Franco-Spanish fleet dispersed
circa 1807
National Maritime Museum
51ft Mud Boat (1815). Scale: 1:24. A plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longlitudinal half-breadth for a fifty-one foot, fifty-five ton mud boat, as built in 1815, and with later proposed modifications.
Signed by George Parkin [Master Shipwr
4 November 1819
National Maritime Museum
Advertising bill ('Abolition of Colonial Slavery... Meeting'). Letterpress poster advertising a meeting for the Abolition of Colonial Slavery. The meeting was to be held in Wakefield (Yorkshire) on November 4, 1830. The poster provides a list of
4 November, 1830
National Maritime Museum