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!
Britannia crowning the Bust of our late Hero Lord Nelson. Nelson’s death generated a flood of commemorative souvenirs and memorabilia, including many engravings. This created an industry of Nelson image-makers among artists and engravers, who drew u
Published 5 December 1805
National Maritime Museum
Brittannia lamenting the death of Admiral Lord Nelson, who after a series of transcendant and heroic Virtues, fell gloriously in his 121st. Engagement in the Moment of a Brilliant & Decisive Victory, obtained over the Combined Fleets of France & S
5 December 1805
National Maritime Museum
Brittannia lamenting the death of Admiral Lord Nelson, who after a series of transcendant and heroic Virtues, fell gloriously in his 121st. Engagement in the Moment of a Brilliant & Decisive Victory, obtained over the Combined Fleets of France & S
5 Dec 1805
National Maritime Museum
Brittannia lamenting the death of Admiral Lord Nelson. Picture transfer-printed on glass depicting a monument with an oval portrait of Nelson on the plinth, a pyramid above bears three inscriptions within oval wreaths: 'Battle of Copenhagen 2d April
5 Dec 1805
National Maritime Museum
Thames Scene: moored vessel with tarpaulin awning in a river landscape with two men fishing. Bound with PAF5128-PAF5134.
5 Dec 1809
National Maritime Museum