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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- 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
Percy Thrower
Percy Thrower examining shrub cuttings rooting in a garden frame.
46 KB
1960s, people, images
Pipe Smokers
Three members of the Jazz Group 'The Temperance Seven'.
36 KB
1960s, people, images
Radio
A Nigerian listener to the African Service on the BBC.
43 KB
1960s, people, images
Reg Harris
Reg Harris, the cycle speed champion, with M. Refit of the Turkish Service. They are standing by the car which Reg entered for the 1956 Monte Carlo Rally but had to withdraw because of engine trouble.
51 KB
1960s, people, images
Restaurant
The restaurant / canteen area in BBC Television Centre (TVC), June 1960.
60 KB
1960s, people, images
Sainsbury
People at Sainsbury's in the 1960s
13 MB
1960s, people, video
Screaming Fans
Top Beat crowd at the Royal Albert Hall.
27 KB
1960s, people, images
Social Gathering
The Ariel Bar in the new BBC Club, Chandos street, London. 1968
32 KB
1960s, people, images
Somerset House
Somerset House
123 KB
1960s, people, images
Staff Canteen
The BBC staff canteen in Bush House, open twenty-four hours a day the canteen caters for the BBC staff drawn from the five continents who broadcast to the world in English and other languages. 1960.
54 KB
1960s, people, images
Standing At The Bar
A group of staff, including BBC Wales Controller, at the opening of the BBC Club at Llandaff.
30 KB
1960s, people, images
Supermarkets
People in supermarkets in the 1960s
11 MB
1960s, people, video
