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!
'Richard Parker President of the Delegates in the late Mutiny in his Majesty's Fleet at the Nore For which he sufferd Death on board the Sandwich the 30th of June 1797'. Richard Parker, as the caption states, was the leader of the naval mut
Published 8 July 1797
National Maritime Museum
The Four Victorious British Admirals. Right Honourable Richd Earl Howe. Right Honourable Lord Visct Duncan. Right Honourable John Earl St Vincent. Right Honourable Lord Nelson. Hand-coloured.
8 Jul 1799
National Maritime Museum
'Coronation' (1831). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the body plan with half stern board outline, sheer lines with some inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for 'Coronation' (1831), a fifty-seven foot tank vessel, as taken off in
8 July 1841
National Maritime Museum
'Coronation' (1831). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the deck and tanks of the 'Coronation' (1831), a fifty-seven foot tank vessel, as taken off in July 1841.
Signed: T. F. Hawkes [Master Shipwright, Plymouth Dockyard, 1837-1843].
8 July 1841
National Maritime Museum
'Woody Point, Vancouver's Island, July 8th 1851' [Canada]. No. 55 in Fanshawe's Pacific album, 1849 - 52. Captioned by the artist on the album page below the image, as title. Woody Point is a prominent headland on the west coast of Van
8 July 1851
National Maritime Museum
H.M.S. Rattlesnake.... entering the Louisiade Archipelago, June 14th 1849. Hand-coloured.; No.2.
8 Jul 1852
National Maritime Museum