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. John Lennon & Dudley Moore

    Dudley Moore, Norman Rossington and John Lennon can be seen in a new BBC 2 revue programme 'Not Only...But Also', 1965

    97 KB

    1960s, tv and radio, images

  2. Computers

    Tony Wedgewood-Benn says new computers will help management problems in telephone managers'areas. 1964

    14 MB

    1960s, people, video

  3. Gilzean

    Alan Gilzean's debut wtih Spurs. 1964

    4 MB

    1960s, sport, video

  4. Railways

    Dr Beeching leaves British Railways. 1964

    14 MB

    1960s, people, video

  5. Xmas Office Party

    Christmas Office Party, London firm holds annual office party for Christmas in West End and provides buses to take employees home and promotes campaign against drinking and driving. 1964

    10 MB

    1960s, people, video

  6. Christmas Day 2

    Christmas in London. 1967

    8 MB

    1960s, events, video

  7. Covent Garden Ushers

    Usherettes of Covent Garden, London. 1964

    23 MB

    1960s, people, video

  8. Women's Bank

    First Women's bank opened, exclusive to women only and staffed by five women with Scotland's first woman bank-manager; Unusual facilities include coffee served with the cash and a softly-lit powder room to complete the club-like atmosphere. It was opened by the National Commercial Bank of Scotland in Edinburgh. 1964

    9 MB

    1960s, people, video

  9. Princess Margaret Barracks

    Princess Margaret visits Barracks. 1965

    8 MB

    1960s, events, video

  10. Chess

    Pete Shannon of Freddie and the Dreamers playing chess and smoking, 1965

    53 KB

    1960s, leisure, images

  11. George Harrison

    George Harrison. 1965

    38 KB

    1960s, music, images

  12. Iyves Montane

    French Singer Iyves Montane, 1965

    43 KB

    1960s, music, images