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
London Olympics
Olympic closing ceremony, London 1948
36 MB
1940s, events, video
London Olympic Bike Race
London Olympics, 1948. Cycling in Windsor Great Park.
17 MB
1940s, sport, video
London Olympic Bike Race
London Olympics, 1948. Cycling in Windsor Great Park.
12 MB
1940s, sport, video
London Olympic Bike Race 3
London Olympics, 1948. Cycling in Windsor Great Park.
15 MB
1940s, sport, video
London Olympic Bike Race 4
London Olympics, 1948. Cycling in Windsor Great Park.
21 MB
1940s, sport, video
London Olympic Horseriding
Wembley Stadium: horse jumping: Prix Des
11 MB
1940s, sport, video
Herring Moon
Good catches of herrings made during recent full moon, Great Yarmouth 1948
14 MB
1940s, people, video
Bethnal Green Market
Christmas shopping in Club Row street market, Bethnal Green, 1948
16 MB
1940s, people, video
Children Singing
Picture shows children singing during Nursey Sing Song in the Manchester Studio.
74 KB
1940s, childhood, images
Emigration
In 1949, assisted by the Australian Government, the greatest number of emigrants ever to leave Britain in one ship, departed from Liverpool, bid farewell by the Lord Mayor.
7 MB
1940s, people, video
Busmen
driver trainees are taught to handle a skidding bus on the famous skid patch at the London Transport Executive School in Chiswick. 1949
60 KB
1940s, people, images
Boat Race
Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge, 1949
105 KB
1940s, sport, images
