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!
Sketch of the works erected by the French on Richmond Hill Grenada. J.Brown Lt 27th Regt.. Single sheet. Ms. Medium: Segmented and backed. Scale: 1:1 800 (bar). Cartographic Note: North at 282 degrees. Scale in yards. Additional Places: Caribbean. Content
1783
National Maritime Museum
Perspective (bow) View of the Valiant Man of War (ship model). Hand-coloured.; Stored in mount with PAH9184.
27 Jan 1791
National Maritime Museum
The Arrogant, Intrepid and Virginie chasing French and Spanish Squadron off coast of China, 27 January 1799. Signed by artist and dated.
1804
National Maritime Museum
Archer class (1800) of 58 12-gun Gunbrigs. Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile, upper deck, and lower deck for the 58 ships of the Archer class (1800), 12-gun Gunbrigs built by contract. Reverse is annotated with a list of the builders and the
27 January 1801
National Maritime Museum