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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Nostalgia 1937 Coronation
1937 Coronation of King George
3 MB
1930s, tv and radio, audio
Nostalgia 1938
Nostalgia 1923
3 MB
1930s, tv and radio, audio
Outside Broadcast
Wynford Vaughan Thomas of the BBCs outside Broadcasting Department recording a dispatch .
32 KB
1940s, tv and radio, images
TV Test Card
BBC Test card G is often called the electronic test card. It can only be seen as a picture on the television screen and does not exist as a card at all, the picture is generated entirely in electronic circuits. The patterns and shapes each have a special significance for television engineers.
45 KB
1940s, tv and radio, images
TV Test Card A
BBC Test card G is often called the electronic test card. It can only be seen as a picture on the television screen and does not exist as a card at all, the picture is generated entirely in electronic circuits. The patterns and shapes each have a special significance for television engineers.
28 KB
1940s, tv and radio, images
Pub Drinkers
Ronnie Shiner the cockney cpmpere of HomeTown visits The Angel pub in Lambeth on a quest for mesasges for theboys from Lambeth homes. 1941
80 KB
1940s, leisure, images
Christmas Family
A Scottish family broadcasting a message in the Christmas Day programme
90 KB
1940s, people, images
Paperboys
Two cockney newspaper boys Harry Fowler and Leslie Adam, 1942
64 KB
1940s, people, images
Christmas Party
Picture shows a childrens Christmas Party being broadcast from London in the BBCs Hindustani Childrens Porgramme presented by Agha Ashraf.
87 KB
1940s, childhood, images
Queen Mary
On 25th March 1943, H.M. Queen Mary paid a visit to Broadcasting House (BH), Bristol, where she saw a schools broadcast transmission, and attended a rehearsal of Ivy Bensons orchestra, and of the Childrens Hour.
58 KB
1940s, people, images
Sea Cadets
Gilbert Harding, BBC commentator, talks to Captain O.M. Watts, well-known writer and yacht designer in peace-time, who directs a Sea School for boys of the Navy-League Sea Cadet Corps.
76 KB
1940s, people, images
Sea School Cadets
Gilbert Harding, BBC commentator, talks to London boys of the Poplar Unit at a Sea School for boys of the Navy-League Sea Cadet Corps.
47 KB
1940s, people, images
