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
2977 results found
Arcade Games 2
Arcade games in the 1980s
14 MB
1980s, leisure, video
Arcade Games
Arcade games in the 1980s
513 KB
1980s, leisure, audio
Camera
A Yashica Mat-124 G crank advance twin lens reflex (TLR) medium format camera, made in about 1980, 27/07/2010. Film camera
80 KB
1980s, leisure, images
Camera Nikon
Nikon 35mm film camera, from 1980s
66 KB
1980s, leisure, images
Coach
A Volvo coach at Coach Fair, from 1983
52 KB
1980s, leisure, images
Cordless Phone
A man holding a cordless telephone, from 1980s
111 KB
1980s, leisure, images
Pong
Pong, 1980s
1 MB
1980s, leisure, audio
Sinclair Spectrum
The Sinclair Spectrum in the 1980s
18 MB
1980s, leisure, video
Sinclair Spectrum
Sinclair Spectrum, 1980s
2 MB
1980s, leisure, audio
Telephone
A push button telephone, from 1987
82 KB
1980s, leisure, images
Chas and Dave
Chas and Dave backstage at Top of the Pops
52 KB
1980s, music, images
Debbie Harry
Debbie Harry, lead singer with Blondie, on Top of the Pops in February 1980
54 KB
1980s, music, images
