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!
A True Position of the French Fleet, as they were Moored near the Mouth of the Nile, and the manner in which Lord Nelson formed his Attack on them on the ever memorable 1st of August 1798. Technique includes aquatint.; Text in English below image.
20 Feb 1799
National Maritime Museum
Union between England & Ireland (caricature). Mounted with PAG8541.; Hand-coloured.; No.28.
Bound in album PAG8512 with prints PAG8513-PAG8647; PAG8649- PAG8666.
20 Feb 1799
National Maritime Museum
The Ceremony of Lord Nelson's Interment, in St Paul's Cathedral, Jany 9th 1806. The funeral ceremony of Nelson in St Paul's Cathedral. The captured Spanish and French battle flags are hanging from the cathedral walls.
20 Feb 1806
National Maritime Museum
Youthful Intrepidity. Young Nelson's Attack & Chase After A Bear, when with Captn Lutwidge on his Voyage of Discovery towards the North Pole. vide Lord Nelson's Life. Print
20 Feb 1806
National Maritime Museum
Capture of La Cleopatre by H.M.S. La Nymphe off the Start, June 18th 1793. Technique includes etching.
20 Feb 1815
National Maritime Museum
To James Weddell, Esqr R.N... the brig Jane and cutter Beaufoy on 20th February 1823, bearing up in 74o 15' (Being the highest Southern Latitude ever reached). Hand-coloured. James Weddell's 1822-24 expedition to Antarctica was to find new seali
Oct 1826
National Maritime Museum
Proposed iron nippers on chain cables (1827). Scale: 1:3 and 1:24. Plan showing the elevation of the fore part of a flush-deck 18-gun Sloop illustrating the use of the iron nippers on the chain cables, and a diagram of the nipper open, closed, and in sec
20 February 1827
National Maritime Museum