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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Cricket Match
Test Match at the Oval
67 KB
1930s, sport, images
Cricket Match Old Trafford
BBC commentators hut at the third test at Old Trafford, Manchester in 1934.
64 KB
1930s, sport, images
Cricket Team
The BBC Cricket Eleven XI at Motspur Park, 1929
44 KB
1930s, sport, images
Cycle Race
National Cycling Festival: competitors lined up for start of race
72 KB
1930s, sport, images
Diving
Fashion Parade - Outside Broadcast (OB) from Roehampton Club. Madge Moulton and Weston Batt diving - Standard Emitron Camera (centre), July 1939.
52 KB
1930s, sport, images
First Televised Boxing Match
The first televised boxing match (L-R): Johnny Sharpe, Laurie Raiteri, C.H. Douglas, Archie Sexton and Master of Ceremonies Pat Regan.
47 KB
1930s, sport, images
Football England Scotland
Football, Soccer: England versus Scotland at Wembley, April 1938.
59 KB
1930s, sport, images
Headingley Leeds Cricket
The fourth test match, Headingly, Leeds
73 KB
1930s, sport, images
Ice Hockey
Earls Court Rangers 'versus' Wembley Monarchs. Ice Hockey, Outside Broadcast from Earls Court, November 1938.
27 KB
1930s, sport, images
King George at FA Cup
Football: Cup Final At Wembley Stadium - H.M. King George VI walking on the field to meet the teams, April 1938.
68 KB
1930s, sport, images
Motor Racing
Motor Racing, Outside Broadcast (OB) from the Crystal Palace. Dobson Leading In E.R.A., May 1939.
51 KB
1930s, sport, images
Motor Racing Car
Motor Racing, Outside Broadcast (OB) from the Crystal Palace. R.J.G. Nash being interviewed by Hayes and A.Neal by his 1911 Lorraine Dietrich, May 1939.
61 KB
1930s, sport, images
