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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Search Results

2977 results found

  1. Showjump

    Heddiw crew film horse jumping at Royal Welsh Show 1963 Llanelwedd, Builth Wells

    99 KB

    1960s, sport, images

  2. Show Jumping

    Heddiw filming the Show Jumping at The Royal Welsh Show, Llanelwedd, Bulith Wells 1963

    117 KB

    1960s, sport, images

  3. Speedway

    Speedway, from 1960s

    5 MB

    1960s, sport, video

  4. Spurs Football

    Football players, Tottenham

    48 KB

    1960s, sport, images

  5. Wimbledon

    Rod Laver and Mark Cox from the 4th round of the 1968 championships

    40 KB

    1960s, sport, images

  6. World Cup Commentators

    Ken Aston, Kenneth Wolstenholme, Wally Barnes, David Coleman, Frank Bough, Alec Weeks and Arthur Ellis, BBC World Cup Commentators, 1966.

    50 KB

    1960s, sport, images

  7. World Cup Final

    A BBC television camera filming action during the 1966 World Cup Finals at Wembley.

    41 KB

    1960s, sport, images

  8. Animal Magic

    Johnny Morris presents in the first episode of 'Animal Magic', from 1962

    13 MB

    1960s, tv and radio, video

  9. Ballroom Dancing 2

    Ballroom dancers from Northern Ireland.

    40 KB

    1960s, tv and radio, images

  10. Ballroom Dancing

    The Woods Ballroom Dancing Team from Scotland.

    47 KB

    1960s, tv and radio, images

  11. Basinful Of Briny

    Edna Hopcroft as Florrie, Sheila Mercier as Clara Hemingway, Jacqueline Jones as Louise Smith, Leo Franklyn as Joe Hemingway. Front Row (L-R) Thora Hird as Mrs. Austin, Brian Rix and Joan Sims as Mr. and Mrs. Pepper. BBC-TV pays its usual visit to the Whitehall Theatre to see 'Basinful Of The Briny' by the actor-playwright Leslie Sands.

    58 KB

    1960s, tv and radio, images

  12. Benny Hill 2

    A composite photo of Benny Hill (top left) Benny Hill as a waiter pouring champagne, (bottom right) Benny Hill as en electrician fixing a lamp, (right) as musical comedy singer.

    38 KB

    1960s, tv and radio, images