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 English engage the Spanish fleet near Plymouth on 31 July 1588]. Disbound sheet. Hand coloured engraving. Scale: circa 1:250,000 (bar). Ungraduated chart of the track of the Spanish Armada. The bar scale is in English miles. The chart contains the co
1590
National Maritime Museum
[The Spanish and English fleets near Plymouth on 30 - 31 July 1588]. Disbound sheet. Hand coloured engraving. Scale: circa 1:200,000 (bar). Ungraduated chart of the track of the Spanish Armada. The bar scale is in English miles. The chart contains the coa
1590
National Maritime Museum
The Battle of Scheveningen 31 July 1653: the last pass in the battle. The battle of Scheveningen was the last engagement of the First Anglo-Dutch War. The death of the Dutch commander-in-chief, Marten Tromp, early in the battle, led to confusion in the Du
1653
National Maritime Museum
The Rt Honble Earl Howe. Engraved for the Register of the Timus. Print
31 Jul 1794
National Maritime Museum
King Canute. The Dane Canute invaded England in 1015 and took control of virtually the whole country, except for the city of London. At the death of Æthelred II, in 1016, the Londoners chose Edmund II as their king, but the Witan (Anglo-Saxon parlia
31 Jul 1802
National Maritime Museum
Right Honble Lord Keith K.B. Vice Admiral of the Red Squadron. Print
31 Jul 1803
National Maritime Museum
Captain John Shortland, 1769-1810. This print is based on a miniature of the sitter also in the Museum (MNT0089), this copy being presented with it by the same donor in 1978. It originally accompanied a memoir of Shortland published in the 'Naval Chr
31 July 1810
National Maritime Museum
John Westley Wright Esqr Commander R.N. Engraved by T. Blood from an original Portrait printed at Malta by Gaelano Galleja. Print
31 Jul 1813
National Maritime Museum
The Honble Capt Courtenay Boyle R.N. Commissioner of the Transport Board. Print
31 Jul 1813
National Maritime Museum
'Princess Charlotte' (1825); 'Royal Adelaide' (1828). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern framing, sheer lines with stern quarter framing, and longitudinal half-breadth showing the circular stern for Princess Charlotte
31 July 1818
National Maritime Museum
'Princess Charlotte' (1825). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile, with alterations dated May 1822, for Princess Charlotte (1825), a 100-110 gun, First Rate, three-decker.
Signed by Joseph Tucker [Surveyor of the Navy, 1813-1831] and
31 July 1821
National Maritime Museum
A pair of warping capstan drums on the pier at Newhaven, July 31 1829. Mounted with PAE5448.
31 Jul 1829
National Maritime Museum
Dolby's sketches in the Baltic 'Yah soe! Ist das den Russiker Balt?' 'Is it possible! Is that the Russian Ball?' Exhibition des desbris d'un obus eclate a bord, pendant l'attaque contre Eckness. Showing the Lions on boar
31 Jul 1854
National Maritime Museum
Dolby's sketches in the Baltic. M Lucas, Aspirant de Marine, jetant par dessus le pont, un obus pres d'eclater a bord du vaisseau l' Hecla, pendant l'attaque contre Bommersund. Mr Lucas throwing the burning shell off the deck of the He
31 Jul 1854
National Maritime Museum
Searching for fault after recovery of the cable from the bed of the Atlantic - July 31st. On 29 July 1865, with 634 miles (1020 km) of cable laid, another break in the electrical signal was recorded on the instruments. On examination, another sliver of wi
1865
National Maritime Museum
A general view of Line B with the battleships at anchor during the Naval Review or King's Review of the Fleet at Spithead.. A general view looking down Line B during the Naval Review or the King's Review of the Fleet at Spithead. The battleships
June - July 1909
National Maritime Museum