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.
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VE Day Street Party
VE Day street party, 1944
1 MB
1940s, events, audio
War Air Raid Aftermath
Picture Robin Duff (far right) BBC war observer, talking to the leader of a rescue party on the scene of air raid damage in the Southwark area. A raid was in progress at the time. Duffs description of the scene and three of of London's rescue parties was recently broadcast into two talks in Radio Newsreel which goes out nightly in the North American programme of the BBC Overseas Service.
67 KB
1940s, events, images
War American Soldiers
Robin Duff, BBC War Correspondent attached to the First U.S. Army talking to a reconnaissance car crew in Perriers. The German Commandment left two hours earlier.
41 KB
1940s, events, images
War Chief Engineer
Denis Johnston, BBC War Correspondent discusses cargo with the Chief Engineer of a Liberty Ship in Italy
52 KB
1940s, events, images
War Engineers
Stanley Maxted, BBC War Correspondent, with engineers building a bridge on Holland
35 KB
1940s, events, images
War Ration Break
Robin Duff, FJ Cooper and an American driver having their K rations.
55 KB
1940s, events, images
War Reporter
C.F. Wade BBC War Correspondent, on his return from Yugoslavia.
72 KB
1940s, events, images
War Reporter France
Robin Duff, BBC War Correspondent attached to the First U.S. Army at Perriers.
59 KB
1940s, events, images
War Reporter Italy
Frank Gillard BBC War Correspondent, in Italy
56 KB
1940s, events, images
St Paul's Cathedral in WW2
Robin Duff, BBC War Correspondent, shows US Private First Class the bomb-destroyed parts of the City of London, and the America records his impressions for broadcasting home in the BBC North American Service. St Paul's Cathedral can be seen in the background.
68 KB
1940s, events, images
Angling
Man angling on the river at Tewksbury
75 KB
1940s, leisure, images
Blackpool Tower
Blackpool tower
50 KB
1940s, leisure, images
