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
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Search Results
2977 results found
Yellow Phones
People using British Telecom telephones, 1989
31 KB
1980s, people, images
Lisa Stansfield
Lisa Stansfield on Top of the Pops, 1989
46 KB
1980s, music, images
Def Leppard
Def Leppard singing 'Rocket' on Top of the Pops. 1989
96 KB
1980s, music, images
Global Warming
Report on Margaret Thatcher's Global Warming Policy, 1989
6 MB
1980s, events, video
Kim Wilde
Kim Wilde performing 'Love in a Natural Way' on TOTP, 1989
82 KB
1980s, music, images
The Cult
The Cult performing 'Fire Woman' Live on TOTP, 1989
85 KB
1980s, music, images
Stevie Nicks
Stevie Nicks performing 'Room on Fire' Top of The Pops, 1989
29 KB
1980s, music, images
Hot Air Balloons
Hot Air Balloons taking off, 1989
94 KB
1980s, leisure, images
Cricket
Allan Border playing a shot during a cricket match in Worcester, May 1989
50 KB
1980s, sport, images
Ian Botham
Ian Botham playing a shot during a cricket match in Worcester, May 1989
42 KB
1980s, sport, images
Skydiving
Skydivers jump out of aircraft, 1989
62 KB
1980s, leisure, images
Swimming Baths
Portadown swimming baths pool, children adults play in water, dive in, form 1969
106 KB
1980s, leisure, images