News
Thursday 26 May 2022, 13:05
Mary McCarthy
Senior Product Manager
Redux recorded and stored all of our broadcast programmes for research and archive uses. Now Archive Search is the place to go to find archive content.
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Wednesday 28 July 2021, 13:25
Bill Thompson
Head of Future Value Research
Next year is the BBC's centenary and a hackday asked teams to consider how we could make the best use of our rich history and the material in the BBC's extensive archive to engage future generations, with a view to shaping the next hundred years.
Wednesday 25 September 2019, 10:16
Jake Berger
Executive Product Manager, BBC Archive Development
Jake Berger gives an update on the project to help people with dementia to reconnect with their most powerful memories.
Friday 19 July 2019, 09:54
Zillah Watson, Dinah Lammiman
BBC VR Hub team
A new partnership for the BBC virtual reality team.
Friday 28 September 2018, 00:05
Jake Berger explains how music is being used to help memory recall for people with dementia.
Monday 13 August 2018, 13:50
The VR team describe their latest experience - set during the 1943 Berlin Blitz.
Wednesday 27 June 2018, 09:00
Andy Armstrong
Software Engineer, BBC Archive Development
Andy Armstrong gives an insight into how he built an archive of the BBC's home computing TV programmes and software from the 1980s.
Tuesday 18 July 2017, 16:32
Carl Davies
Service Development and Delivery Manager
The BBC tries to maintain and keep older pages online for the public to access for as a long as possible (dependant on technology, editorial or copyright reasons). It’s the BBC Archives responsibility to archive copies offline and preserve them.
Thursday 19 November 2015, 11:10
Laura Harrison
Producer, BBC Connected Studios
A workshop to investigate whether the BBC Archive can be used to help stimulate memory in people living with dementia. The workshop provided essential insight which was incorporated in their development of ideas for new digital experiences.
Thursday 06 November 2014, 13:48
Neil McIntosh
Managing Editor, BBC Online
The BBC cares for its online archive, maintaining access to years of content. But maintaining access to the archive is different to maintaining the content itself, which means much of the archive is frozen in time: we no longer update it. In those cases, we’ve added a clear label to the page.
