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.

Notes on downloading:

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Search Results

2977 results found

  1. Sister Sledge

    Sister Sledge on 'Top of the Pops' 1970's

    80 KB

    1970s, music, images

  2. Stevie Wonder

    Stevie Wonder performing on 'Top of the Pops' 1970s

    50 KB

    1970s, music, images

  3. Suzi Quatro

    Suzi Quatro appearing on 'Top of the Pops' in the 1970s

    52 KB

    1970s, music, images

  4. The New Seekers

    The New Seekers. 1970's

    73 KB

    1970s, music, images

  5. The Wombles

    The Wombles performing on 'Top of the Pops' in the 1970s.

    132 KB

    1970s, music, images

  6. The Wurzels

    The Wurzels performing on 'Top of the Pops' in the 1970's

    82 KB

    1970s, music, images

  7. Three Degrees

    The Three Degrees The Three Degrees appearing on Top of the Pops in the 1970s

    100 KB

    1970s, music, images

  8. Todd Rundgren

    Todd Rundgren. 1970

    57 KB

    1970s, music, images

  9. TOTP Audience

    Top of the Pops audience. 1970's

    88 KB

    1970s, music, images

  10. Biscuit Factory

    Jim and John who touchingly remember the biscuity pleasures of working at the Huntley and Palmers factory in Reading which closed in the 1970s

    3 MB

    1970s, people, audio

  11. Bolton Nurses

    Nurses at a hospital in Bolton

    51 KB

    1970s, people, images

  12. Carwash

    Car going through car wash during period of water restrictions, 1970

    8 MB

    1970s, people, video