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 'Agamemnon' engaging four French frigates and a brig near Sardinia, 27 October 1793. The third, but second in order of events, in a series of ten drawings (PAF5871–PAF5874, PAF5876, PAF5880–PAF5881 and PAF5883–PAF5885) of m
1810
National Maritime Museum
49ft Buoy Boat (1807). Scale: 1:32. A plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth proposed [and approved] for a forty-nine foot buoy boat for the Master Attendants of Plymouth Dockyard, built 1807.
Signed
27 October 1804
National Maritime Museum
'Ld. Nelson receiving his Death Wound'. A naïve print showing the death of Nelson on the deck of the ‘Victory’. Nelson is portrayed in the centre having just received the fatal shot. A sailor prepares to catch him as he swoons.
Published 27 October 1806
National Maritime Museum