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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Toys
The BBC outside broadcast cameras visiting a West End store so that viewers can watch children enjoying the Christmas toy display. The television announcer helps a little girl to try out one of the toys.
47 KB
1940s, childhood, images
West Ham Cycle Riders
Two representatives of the West Ham Boys cinder-track cycle racing club
48 KB
1940s, childhood, images
Churchill VE Speech
Churchill VE Day speech, 1944
333 KB
1940s, events, audio
Concentration Camp
Concentration camp, 1944
2 MB
1940s, events, audio
Spitfire
A traditional fly past of a WWII Spitfire, above the annual Proms concert at Stonor Park, Henley-upon-Thames, Oxon. The Supermarine Spitfire was a British single-seat fighter, which was used by the Royal Air Force and many other Allied countries during the Second World War (WW2), and into the 1950s. Produced by the Supermarine subsidiary of Vickers-Armstrongs, the Spitfire was designed by the company's Chief Designer R. J. Mitchell,
13 KB
1940s, events, images
VE Come Back Safely
VE Day come back safely, 1944
1002 KB
1940s, events, audio
VE Day Concentration Camp
VE Day Concentration Camp, 1944
921 KB
1940s, events, audio
VE Day Guarding The Palace
VE Day guarding the palace, 1944
984 KB
1940s, events, audio
VE Day Husband Coming Home
VE Day husband coming home, 1944
673 KB
1940s, events, audio
VE Day In Crete
VE Day in Crete, 1944
642 KB
1940s, events, audio
VE Day London
VE Day in London, 1944
1 MB
1940s, events, audio
VE Day Medal
VE Day medal, 1944
1 MB
1940s, events, audio
