diff --git a/drafty.api.php b/drafty.api.php
index 7ede483..032be03 100644
--- a/drafty.api.php
+++ b/drafty.api.php
@@ -4,3 +4,27 @@
  * API documentation for drafty.
  */
 
+/**
+ * Hook to allow preserving information attached to a revision before deleted.
+ *
+ * @param string $entity_type
+ *   The entity type.
+ * @param int $entity_id
+ *   The entity id.
+ * @param int $revision_id
+ *   The revision id to be deleted.
+ * @param int $replaced_by
+ *   The revision that is replacing the revision being deleted.
+ */
+function hook_drafty_predelete_revision($entity_type, $entity_id, $revision_id, $replaced_by) {
+  if ($entity_type == 'node') {
+    // Preserve the revision timestamp.
+    $revision = node_load($entity_id, $revision_id);
+    db_update('node_revision')
+      ->fields(array(
+        'timestamp' => $revision->revision_timestamp,
+      ))
+      ->condition('vid', $replaced_by)
+      ->execute();
+  }
+}
diff --git a/drafty.module b/drafty.module
index 52dd772..ea1d154 100644
--- a/drafty.module
+++ b/drafty.module
@@ -116,6 +116,10 @@ function drafty_field_attach_load($entity_type, $entities, $age, $options) {
  */
 function drafty_queue_delete_revision($drafty_queue_item, &$context = NULL) {
   try {
+    // Allow other modules to preserve information on the old revision before
+    // it's deleted.
+    module_invoke_all('drafty_predelete_revision', $drafty_queue_item['entity_type'], $drafty_queue_item['entity_id'], $drafty_queue_item['revision_id'], $drafty_queue_item['replaced_by']);
+
     entity_revision_delete($drafty_queue_item['entity_type'], $drafty_queue_item['revision_id']);
     if (!empty($context) && isset($context['results'])){
       // Document the successful batch operation for the batch-finished function to use.
@@ -325,17 +329,19 @@ class Drafty {
     foreach ($this->revisionsToPublish as $type => $value) {
       foreach ($value as $id => $vid) {
         unset($this->revisionsToPublish[$type][$id]);
-        $this->publishRevision($type, $id, $vid);
+        $published_revision = $this->publishRevision($type, $id, $vid);
         // Now that the revision is deleted, there are two identical copies of
         // the revision in the system. The original 'draft' revision and the
         // newly saved published revision.
         if ($delete_old_revisions) {
+          list (, $replaced_by) = entity_extract_ids($type, $published_revision);
           // Deletion must be done on a different request thread, or any other
           // hooks called for the revision-to-be-deleted will fail.
           $drafty_queue_item = array(
             'entity_type' => $type,
             'entity_id' => $id,
             'revision_id' => $vid,
+            'replaced_by' => $replaced_by,
           );
           if ($delete_with_cron) {
             if (empty($queue)) {