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!
Captain William Meade Fowle. Unit: 3rd Company, Sappers and Miners, Royal Engineers. Death: 16 March 1916, Brighton.
Died 16 March 1916
Imperial War Museum
Margaret Gargan, Munitions work. Killed in the course of her duty at a bomb factory 16 March 1916.
Died 16 March 1916
Imperial War Museum
Members of No 1 Flying Squadron waiting to board HMAT ORSOVA
Taken 16 Mar 1916
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons
Munitions Worker Margaret Gargan , Ministry of Munitions
Died 16 March 1916
Lives of the First World War