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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- Downloading video items will include both the video files and a ‘poster image’ for each video
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2977 results found
Woody Guthrie
Woody Guthrie.
41 KB
1940s, music, images
After Work Drink
An after work scene at the BBC Club Bar in Bedford.
38 KB
1940s, people, images
After Work Drinks
An after work scene at the BBC Club Bar in Bedford
45 KB
1940s, people, images
BBC Allotment
The communal plot which is being developed by the BBC Outside Broadcasting Department in a London Square, begins to show good results of the work that has been put into it.. There were plotside broadcasts, every other Wednesday in the BBC Home Service programme.
71 KB
1940s, people, images
American Dancing
American dancing, 1940s
2 MB
1940s, people, audio
Army Football Match Crowd
The British Army V Allied Armies at Stamford Bridge
40 KB
1940s, people, images
BBC Allotment
Members of the BBC outside broadcasting department starting their own allotment in a London square in 1942.
39 KB
1940s, people, images
BBC Canteen 2
Canteen in the BBC Broadcasting Centre, Wembley
52 KB
1940s, people, images
BBC Canteen
A BBC canteen
51 KB
1940s, people, images
Bomber Air Crew
Bomber command air crew. A series presented by Prof. Richard Holmes about major battles in the Second World War. Sir Arthur Harris Bomber Command veterans recall how, nightly they flew terrifying missions to destroy heavily defended targets in Germany.
28 KB
1940s, people, images
Bush House Canteen
Canteen Bush House
54 KB
1940s, people, images
Cafe Man
Harold Jukes, BBC North Region Talks Producer going over a script in the canteen.
45 KB
1940s, people, images
