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!
For the Benefit of the Families of the killed in the Allied Fleet on the Coast of Syria... The Attack & Capture of Sidon... (with key). The print depicts a joint British and Austrian naval attack on Sidon, Syria, which took place on 27th September 184
23 Jun 1841
National Maritime Museum
Clipper Ship The Goolwa... Messrs Anderson Thomson & Co Owners, & Messrs A Hall & Son, Builders, Aberdeen. Print
23 Jun 1866
National Maritime Museum
'HM Turret Ship 'Devastation' at Spithead on the Occasion of the Naval Review in Honour of the Shah of Persia, 23rd June 1873'. In 1873, the Shah of Persia made a state visit to England where he was received and entertained in a style
1875
National Maritime Museum