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. Decimalisation

    Decimalisation: Callaghan gives reasons for using the pound rather than ten shillings as the new basic unit. 1966

    2 MB

    1960s, events, audio

  2. North Devon Church

    People arriving at church in North Devon. 1966

    10 MB

    1960s, people, video

  3. VW Car Factory

    Footage from the Volkswagen Car Factory. 1966

    3 MB

    1960s, people, video

  4. Aberfan

    A report on the start of the Aberfan Disaster Tribunal. 1966

    3 MB

    1960s, events, audio

  5. M4 Stretch Opened

    New stretch of M4 motorway opened. 1966

    9 MB

    1960s, events, video

  6. Shopping

    Christmas shoppers in London's West End. 1966

    9 MB

    1960s, people, video

  7. Anti Vietnam War

    Anti-Vietnam War Protest March through London organised by the Youth for Peace in Vietnam Committee. 1966

    6 MB

    1960s, events, video

  8. Edward Heath

    Edward Heath conducts carol concert. 1966

    9 MB

    1960s, music, video

  9. Christmas Spending

    Christmas in London. 1966

    22 MB

    1960s, people, video

  10. Circus

    Bertram Mills Circus final Christmas season at Olympia. 1966

    11 MB

    1960s, animals, video

  11. Circus

    Bertram Mills Circus final Christmas season at Olympia. 1966

    11 MB

    1960s, childhood, video

  12. Circus

    Bertram Mills Circus final Christmas season at Olympia. 1966

    11 MB

    1960s, leisure, video