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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Princess Margaret Launches Ship
Princess Margaret Launches Ship, 1940s
3 MB
1940s, people, audio
Pub Drinkers
Honor Balfour (centre) with the cricket team from the village of Cassington, Oxfordshire, in his radio survey of village life and people.
45 KB
1940s, people, images
Quick Lunch Canteen
Wynford Vaughan Thomas interviews Lady Gater and her staff of the voluntary workers in the National Gallery quick-lunch canteen for the Services and war workers.
63 KB
1940s, people, images
Restaurant
A restaurant/canteen in Broadcasting House
47 KB
1940s, people, images
Scotland Seaweed
Seaweed for the factory, Scotland
69 KB
1940s, people, images
Southfleet
The people of Southfleet, Kent gather around the BBC Mobile recording cars
64 KB
1940s, people, images
Spitfire Pilot
Squadron Leader stands in front of his Spitfire circa 1944
46 KB
1940s, people, images
Spy Ring
Spyring, 1940s
5 MB
1940s, people, audio
Swansea
The centre of Swansea which was destroyed in the raids of 1941.
80 KB
1940s, people, images
Swedish Choir
The Swedish Madrigalker Choir at Llangollen Eisteddfod 1948
49 KB
1940s, people, images
Swimming Champ
An International Swimming Competition held in London in 1943. Here is the holder of the men's record for three hundred metres free style swimming.
38 KB
1940s, people, images
Traffic Manager's Office
Traffic Managers office: the control centre for the reception and distribution of dispatches from correspondence abroad
52 KB
1940s, people, images