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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Victory Party
Victory Party (02/05/1945) the BBC Variety Departments peak victory programme, broadcast on the 2nd VE day, May 1945, in the BBC Home Service, and later in the General Forces programme. (Left-Right) - Vera Lynn, Elsie Waters, Jack Train, Doris Waters, and some of the returned British Prisoners of War who were among the audience
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1940s, people, images
War Cairo Office
Godfrey Talbot, BBC War Correspondent during the 8th Army's advance from El Alamein.
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1940s, people, images
War Correspondants
BBC Reporters at the station before they set off to join the BBC Recording Unit in the Near East
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1940s, people, images
William Walton
Sir William Walton, the well-known British composer, 1949.
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1940s, people, images
Women At War
Driver and Traffic Clerks. The British Overseas Airways girls, who on 23rd Feb, competed against and defeated a team of W.A.A.F.'s in a 'General Knowledge Quiz'.
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1940s, people, images
Women's Volunteer Fireguard
BBC Inter-Corporation Trailer Pump Competition, Women's Volunteer Fireguard Party.
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1940s, people, images
Working Girl 2
Worker and a works manager telling her that filling cartridges will involve certain safety precautions.
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1940s, people, images
Working Girl 3
The BBC follows a twenty year old London girl as she leaves home to go to her wartime job in a small arms munitions factory in the midlands.
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1940s, people, images
Working Girl
Woman putting on over shoes in the shift house as part of the protective clothing she will wear while she does her work of filling cartridges.
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1940s, people, images
BBC Football Team
Latin-American association and Portuguese members of the BBC staff now stationed in the country.
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1940s, sport, images
Boxing Boys
A boxing bout in the gymnasium.
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1940s, sport, images
Cycle Sprint
Sprint cycling from the 1940s
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1940s, sport, video
