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:
- Downloading video items will include both the video files and a ‘poster image’ for each video
- Downloading audio items will include both the audio files and a ‘poster image’ for each audio item, if available
- Downloading image items will just include the images
- All downloads will include a CSV file containing the metadata for the selected media items
Search Results
2977 results found
Telly Wooden
A Granada colour television set, from 1970s
54 KB
1970s, leisure, images
Abba
Abba
38 KB
1970s, music, images
A Big Band 2
A Big Band from the early 1970s
84 KB
1970s, music, images
A Big Band
A Big Band from the early 1970s
94 KB
1970s, music, images
Acker Bilk
Acker Bilk, circa 1970s.
90 KB
1970s, music, images
Adam Faith
Singer Adam Faith in 1970.
96 KB
1970s, music, images
Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin singing, from 1970s.
28 KB
1970s, music, images
Badfinger
Badfinger backstage at Top of the Pops.
39 KB
1970s, music, images
Billy Fury
Billy Fury.
31 KB
1970s, music, images
Christmas Carol
Christmas carol singing, from the 1970s
17 MB
1970s, music, video
Diana Ross
Diana Ross arriving at Heathrow in 1973
92 KB
1970s, music, images
Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton in 1977
73 KB
1970s, music, images
