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
Drawing Office
Avenue House, Clapham: Equipment Department: Part of the Main Drawing Office.
44 KB
1930s, people, images
Factory Cotton Girl
Girl in a cotton factory
40 KB
1930s, people, images
Farmer
Farmer, 1930s
680 KB
1930s, people, audio
Fashion
Man and woman at the entrance to the Radio Times office
45 KB
1930s, people, images
Gardeners
Gardening in the grounds of Alexandra Palace - Outside Broadcast (OB), C.H. Middleton on the far left, July 1937.
73 KB
1930s, people, images
Groundsman
Groundsman, at work.
44 KB
1930s, people, images
Groundsman Sweeping
Groundsman, at work.
55 KB
1930s, people, images
Henry Hall Smoking
BBC Personalities Henry Hall and Leslie Mitchell Smoking. Bandleader Henry Hall, who is leaving the BBC, lights a cigarette for commentator Leslie Mitchell during a farewell conversation.
37 KB
1930s, people, images
Horn Section
The horn section of the BBC Theatre Orchestra, 1930s
34 KB
1930s, people, images
Indoor Games Bar
Indoor Games, Darts and Shove Ha'Penny, May 1937.
39 KB
1930s, people, images
Irving Berlin
Mr. Henry Hall and Mr. Irving Berlin, October 1932.
26 KB
1930s, people, images
Kitzbuhel Group
The Kitzbuhel Tyroleans.
36 KB
1930s, people, images
