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
Ice Cream Stall
Hunstanton Seafront on the Norfolk Coast, Ice Cream Stall, 1998
110 KB
leisure, images
The Beach
Hunstanton Seafront on the Norfolk Coast, 1998
192 KB
leisure, images
Tony Blair
Tony Blair at the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool, 1998
7 MB
people, video
Cafe
People relaxing in a cafe, 1998
136 KB
leisure, images
Playstation
Children playing Playstation, 1999
101 KB
childhood, images
Playstation
Children playing Playstation, 1999
38 KB
leisure, images
Bus Passengers
Bus interior, passengers in seats in Cambridge, 1999
90 KB
people, images
Food Market
Cambridge Food Market, 1999
144 KB
people, images
Elephants
Elephants at London Zoo, 1999
43 KB
animals, images
Keith Richards
Keith Richards - guitarist on stage at The Rolling Stones gig, the Empire, Shepherds Bush, June 1999
35 KB
music, images
Teddy Bear
Teddy Bear, 1999
75 KB
childhood, images
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
Arantxa Vicario Sanczhe interview, 1999
37 KB
sport, images











