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!
Medal commemorating Marco Polo and the 9th Conference of Italian Scientists. Medal commemorating Marco Polo and the 9th Conference of Italian Scientists. Obverse: Bust of the explorer Marco Polo (circa1254-1324) in a cap (right). Legend: 'MARCO POLO
1847
National Maritime Museum
Terrific combat between the Monitor 2 guns & Merrimac 10 guns in Hampton Roads March 9th 1862. Hand-coloured.
1862
National Maritime Museum
Greenwich Hospital School boys in Trafalgar Square March 9th 1872. Greenwich Hospital School was set up for the sons of poor seamen who were pensioners of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich. After absorbing the separate Royal Naval Asylum in the 1820s (whi
9 March 1872
National Maritime Museum