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
Earth Wind And Fire
Studio portrait of disco funkmeisters Earth, Wind and Fire taken in October 1980.
87 KB
1980s, music, images
John Lennon
John Lennon, one of the members of The Beatles. Lennon was murdered in 1980 by Mark Chapman, outside Lennons New York apartment.
28 KB
1980s, music, images
Rugby Crowd Singing
A rugby crowd singing in the 1980s
11 MB
1980s, music, video
Vinyl
45 rpm 7-inch vinyl singles
104 KB
1980s, music, images
Ceefax Worker
Ceefax Sub Editor preparing a page of Ceefax news on the Colombia Space Shuttle Launch on a Visual Display Unit and keyboard.
34 KB
1980s, people, images
Essexand Hunt
Racing driver James Hunt sits on a Triumph Bonneville 750, with singer David Essex standing behind, from 1980.
79 KB
1980s, people, images
High Street
People go shopping in the high street in the 1980s
102 KB
1980s, people, images
High Street Shoppers 2
People go shopping in the high street in the 1980s
105 KB
1980s, people, images
High Street Shoppers
People go shopping in the high street in the 1980s
110 KB
1980s, people, images
London Stock Exchange
The London Stock Exchange in the 1980s
9 MB
1980s, people, video
Police
Policeman from Thames Valley Traffic Division, from 1980s
27 KB
1980s, people, images
Prince Charles
Charles, Prince of Wales.
51 KB
1980s, people, images
