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!
The European State Jockies Running a Heat for the Balance of Power (caricature). Hand-coloured.; Text in English below image.
25 Mar 1740
National Maritime Museum
The South East Prospect of London From the Tower to London Bridge. 1746. Hand-coloured.
This 1746 print shows a very busy river scene. The view is from the river itself, and looks west towards the north bank. The Tower of London, the Monument and St Paul
25 Mar 1746
National Maritime Museum
Sir George Pocock Admiral of the Blue Squadron of His Majesty's Fleet, Knight of the Most honourable Order of the Bath. Print
25 Mar 1762
National Maritime Museum
Sr. George Pocock Admiral of the Blue Squadron of His Majesty's Fleet, Knight of the most honourable Order of the Bath. Print
25 Mar 1762
National Maritime Museum
Sr. George Pocock Admiral of the Blue-Squadron of His Majesty's Fleet, & Knight of the most honourable Order of the Bath. Print
25 Mar 1762
National Maritime Museum
A View of the Royal Dockyard at Deptford. This print of 1789 from Dodd's 'Dockyard' set shows the scale of activity in and around the Royal Dockyard at Deptford, which remained an important centre for the building and repair of the navy
25 March 1789
National Maritime Museum
Sensibility, From the Original Picture, in the Possession of William Hayley, Esqr. Text in English below image.
25 Mar 1789
National Maritime Museum
Extravagance and Dissipation (caricature). A man at home in a genteel house, who has been out eating and drinking to excess. He is holding his head in hand. His wife in contrast is dressed in white, and has been reading a book. She has a watch pinned to h
25 Mar 1794
National Maritime Museum
Admiral Lord Nelson, KB and the Victory of the Nile. This Portrait...at the...L'Orient's Tremendous Explosion...Inscribed to J J Angerstein.... Text in English below image.
25 Mar 1799
National Maritime Museum
Halifax (captured 1797). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard detail and figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for Halifax (captured 1797), a captured French privateer, as fitted at Plymouth Docky
25 March 1801
National Maritime Museum
Halifax (captured 1797). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck, and lower deck for Halifax (captured 1797), a captured French privateer, as fitted at Plymouth Dockyard in 1801 as 12-gun Armed Brig. Halifax was originally given the name 'Mary
25 March 1801
National Maritime Museum
Draft of the Busy Cutter, in the Service of the Customs. Vol III. Page 404.
25 Mar 1802
National Maritime Museum
Stern Views of the Terrible and Monarque, French Ships of War. Vol III page 116.
25 Mar 1802
National Maritime Museum
Loss of the 'Magnificent', 25 March 1804. The wreck of the 'Magnificent', 74 guns, took place early in the Napoleonic War, 1803-15. Commanded by Captain W. H. Jervis (formerly Ricketts), the ship was one of twenty sail of the line bloc
1839
National Maritime Museum
A Naval Enquiry with a Naught-ical Explanation (caricature). Mounted in album with PAI3425-PAI3628, PAI3630-PAI3776.; Hand-coloured.
25 Mar 1805
National Maritime Museum
The Sailor and the Ghost: A whimsical Ballad... (caricature). Technique includes stipple engraving.; Hand-coloured.; Text in English below image.; Page No.389.
25 Mar 1805
National Maritime Museum
Distressing situation of the Guardian sloop, Capt. Riou, after striking on a floating Island of ice. This is a hand-coloured aquatint of the ‘Guardian’ in grave distress after striking an iceberg in the Southern Ocean, in longitude 41 degrees
25 Mar 1809
National Maritime Museum