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
Iranian Embassy Seige
Footage of the Iranian Embassy siege in 1980
9 MB
1980s, events, video
Iranian Embassy Siege
Footage of the Iranian Embassy siege in 1980
8 MB
1980s, events, video
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher after finishing her famous 'The Lady's Not for Turning' speech, October 10th 1980 at the Tory Party Conference in Brighton
78 KB
1980s, events, images
Nixon
Former US president Richard Nixon in April 1980
52 KB
1980s, events, images
Princess Diana
Princess Diana on the red carpet at a London Theatre in the 1980s
11 MB
1980s, events, video
Riot
Unrest in Brixton in July 1981
102 KB
1980s, events, images
Teachers Strike 1
Teachers Strike demonstration in London, from May 1984
145 KB
1980s, events, images
Teachers Strike
Teachers Strike demonstration in London, from May 1984
136 KB
1980s, events, images
Unemployment March
An unemployment march in 1980s
10 MB
1980s, events, video
Amiga 1
Commodore Amiga Home Computer and Monitor. A typical home computer of the late 1980s.
37 KB
1980s, leisure, images
Amiga
Commodore Amiga Home Computer and Monitor. A typical home computer of the late 1980s.
29 KB
1980s, leisure, images
Arcade Games
Arcade games in the 1980s
18 MB
1980s, leisure, video
