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

2977 results found

  1. Taxi Driver Herbert

    Taxi driver

    57 KB

    1930s, people, images

  2. Templars Choir

    The Templars Choir

    38 KB

    1930s, people, images

  3. Unloading Van

    Sir Henry Woods music arriving at the Queens Hall from his home. (men unloading van)

    39 KB

    1930s, people, images

  4. Welsh Ladies Choir

    Ivor Novello MBE, Clara Novello-Davies and members of the Welsh ladies Choir

    33 KB

    1930s, people, images

  5. Young Farmers

    Young Farmers Outside Broadcast 'Judging Stock-Judging'. Ayrshire cows.

    64 KB

    1930s, people, images

  6. Young Ladies

    Philip Ridgeways Young Ladies.

    46 KB

    1930s, people, images

  7. Arsenal Manager

    Arsenal manager George Allison (left) introducing the Arsenal captain Jack Crayston in 1937.

    37 KB

    1930s, sport, images

  8. Arsenal Warm-Up

    Soccer at the Arsenal - physical exercises

    36 KB

    1930s, sport, images

  9. Boxing

    Black and white boxing, imperial services boxing rules.

    30 KB

    1930s, sport, images

  10. Boxing Corner

    Man from Cardiff Gas Company Boxing Club (seated) in the Concert Hall, Alexandra Palace.

    25 KB

    1930s, sport, images

  11. Boxing Match

    BBC Television Service outside broadcast from Harringay Stadium showing a boxing match between Eric Boon and Arthur Donahar for the GB Lightweight Championship.

    29 KB

    1930s, sport, images

  12. Boxing Match WA

    The A.A. Boxing Club boxing in the Great Hall at Alexandra Palace.

    29 KB

    1930s, sport, images