Its website, community workshops and exhibitions[1] show 20th-century working class history and popular culture.

[4][5] It was established to document and highlight the changes in 20th-century British culture, and society through social and documentary photography.

Its focus is on documenting everyday life, in particular working class history and British counterculture and fashions of the 20th century.

The British Culture Archive encompasses the work of established photographers, such as Tish Murtha, Kevin Cummins and Peter Mitchell, and that of others whose work documents social change in British society but has not been widely seen.

[5] This was established in 2017 for crowdsourced images of everyday life in Britain from the 1930s to 2000 and the rapid rise of smartphones and social media.