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!
Ground plan of the City of Londonderry relieved by Mountjoy, Phoenix and Dartmouth breaking the Boom, 16th April-30 July 1689. Page 5.
1693
National Maritime Museum
Endeavour (1768). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the lower deck for Endeavour (1768), a purchased collier, prior to final fitting as a ship-rigged Bark for exploration.
April 1768
National Maritime Museum
A Sailor's Return in Peace. A sailor greets his wife with a kiss on returning home from sea, surrounded by their family. See BHC1125 for the original oil (or a preparatory version). This is one of a set of four plates of effectively the same size an
16 Apr 1798
National Maritime Museum
Sailors in a Fight. Entitled 'Sailors in a Fight', this print is inscribed: 'To the British Navy this plate is respectfully dedicated by there [sic] obedient humble Ser[van]t. John Raphael Smith'. It is one of a set of four plates of
16 Apr 1798
National Maritime Museum
Sailors in a storm. This print shows four sailors fighting for their lives in a storm on the deck of a dismasted ship. The deck is at a dramatic angle in the raging sea breaking over it, with the stump of what appears to be the broken mizzen mast clearly
16 Apr 1798
National Maritime Museum
Sailors in Port. Sailors relaxing on the deck of a what is probably a naval ship. They are dancing to the fiddler's music and enjoying the company of girls. Although seamen would often visit taverns and brothels ashore, prostitutes were often brought
16 Apr 1798
National Maritime Museum
Liffey (1813); Forth (1813); Severn (1813); Liverpool (1814); Glasgow (1814). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile for Liffey (1813), Forth (1813), Severn (1813), Liverpool (1814), and Glasgow (1814), all fir-built 40-gun Fifth Rate, Frigates bu
16 April 1813
National Maritime Museum
Admiral Porter's Fleet running the Rebel blockade of the Mississippi at Vicksburg, April 16th 1863. Hand-coloured.
1863
National Maritime Museum