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!
Plan of the... Engagement of Abukir at the Mouth of the Nile, ... on 1st & 2nd August 1798... as situated in the Evening.... Hand-coloured.
25 Dec 1798
National Maritime Museum
The wreck of HMS Hero in the Texel, 25 December 1811. 'The wreck of HMS Hero in the Texel, 25 Dec 1811' by Thomas Robbert Strickland, Lt, Rn, 1787-1853.
1839
National Maritime Museum
Stage coach, laden with hampers and game, inscribed Christmas Day 1822. Mounted with PAE6613-PAE6617.; Signed by artist and dated.
25 Dec 1822
National Maritime Museum
'Saved'. Woman and child being rescued from the sea by a man with a breeches buoy. 'The Graphic.'
The Herschels prints and drawings collection deteriorated slightly towards the end of the 19th, beginning of the 20th century becoming l
25 December 1871
National Maritime Museum