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.
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Search Results
173 results found
Factory Workers
After nearly 2 weeks, strikers at Fords Works at Dagenham went back to work in March 1959. The strike began over the employment of a non- union man.
57 KB
people, images
Horse And Foal
A horse and foal enjoy some hay and water in a field, from 1990.
133 KB
animals, images
Carnival
Scenes from the Notting Hill Carnival in the 1990s
7 MB
childhood, video
Construction Canary Wharf
The construction of Canary Wharf in London in the 1990s
9 MB
events, video
Free Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela is freed from Prison, in 1990
2 MB
events, audio
Greenham Women Protest
Women protest at Greenham Common in the 1990s
8 MB
events, video
Iraq War
The Iraq War, 1990s
18 MB
events, video
Iraq War 2
The Iraq War, 1990s
28 MB
events, video
Poll Tax Riots
The Poll Tax riots in 1990s
11 MB
events, video
Poll Tax Riots 2
The Poll Tax riots in 1990s
6 MB
events, video
Poll Tax Riots
Poll Tax Riots, 1990s
929 KB
events, audio
Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher, from 1990s
6 MB
events, video
