These nearly 3000 items from the BBC Archive have been made freely available for personal, educational, and research use, licensed under the terms of the RemArc licence.

The material is searchable, can be browsed by ‘Theme’ or ‘Decade’, and filtered by media type.

You can download individual items from the collection, or use the search and filtering to produce your own downloadable collections.

Notes on downloading:

  • Downloading video items will include both the video files and a ‘poster image’ for each video
  • Downloading audio items will include both the audio files and a ‘poster image’ for each audio item, if available
  • Downloading image items will just include the images
  • All downloads will include a CSV file containing the metadata for the selected media items

Search Results

173 results found

  1. Blackpool Seafront

    People on the seafront Blackpool, 1995

    42 KB

    people, images

  2. Blackpool Tourists

    People on holiday in Blackpool, 1995

    43 KB

    people, images

  3. Athletics

    John Ridgeon - GB athlete 400m runner, 1996

    37 KB

    sport, images

  4. Bridge Opening

    Prince Charles opens the 2nd Severn Bridge and meets children all waving Union Jack flags, June 1996

    7 MB

    events, video

  5. Olympic Rowing

    Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent winning gold in the rowing at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta

    13 MB

    sport, video

  6. Mickey Mouse

    Mickey Mouse, Disneyland Paris, 1997

    30 KB

    childhood, images

  7. Disneyland Paris

    Disneyland Paris, 1997

    33 KB

    leisure, images

  8. Disneyland Paris

    Disneyland Paris, 1997

    39 KB

    people, images

  9. London Tourists

    Tourists at horseguards parade, 1997

    39 KB

    people, images

  10. Airbus

    Passenger watches tv on Airbus aeroplane, 1997

    27 KB

    people, images

  11. Radio DJs

    Fifteen of the original BBC Radio 1 DJ's line-up on the steps of All Soul's Church, recreating the original publicity photograph taken 30 years ago in 1967 that launched the new station. (L-R Back row) Jimmy Young, Robin Scott (1st Controller), Duncan Johnson (squatting), Dave Cash and Pete Brady, (L-R Middle Row) Bob Holness, Terry Wogan, Keith Skues, Chris Denning and Pete Myers, (L-R Front row) Pete Murray, Ed Stewart, Pete Drummond, Mike Ahern and John Peel. 1997

    80 KB

    tv and radio, images

  12. Buckingham Palace

    Buckingham Palace Mourners after Death of Diana, Princess of Wales 1997

    161 KB

    events, images