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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Redrum
Red Rum, ridden by Tommy Stack, wins 1977 the News of the World Grand National at Aintree. Red Rum won the world famous steeplechase event three times and is buried near the winning post at Aintree.
44 KB
1970s, sport, images
Rugby Allblacks
The All Blacks Rugby Team from the 1970s
9 MB
1970s, sport, video
Table Tennis Club
The BBC Club table tennis team, from the 1970s
28 KB
1970s, sport, images
Tennis Arthur Ashe
Arthur Ashe playing against a Britain's player Graham Stillwell in the Fourth Round of the Men's Singles at Wimbledon which Arthur Ashe won 6-2 5-7 6-4 6-2.
49 KB
1970s, sport, images
Tennis Jimmy Connors
Jimmy Connors playing in a men's singles match at Wimbledon.
60 KB
1970s, sport, images
The All Blacks Rugby
The All Blacks Rugby Team from the 1970s
29 MB
1970s, sport, video
World Cup 1970
Back Home' sung by the England 1970 World Cup squad
18 MB
1970s, sport, video
Alistair Cooke America
Alistair Cooke presenting 'Postcards From America'
13 MB
1970s, tv and radio, video
Ballroom Dancing 2
The Laura Dixon School of Dancing at the Casino Ballroom, Birmingham, for the third heat in the nationwide amateur ballroom dancing contest between twelve regions.
43 KB
1970s, tv and radio, images
Ballroom Dancing
Dancing Formation Team from Scotland West who took on a team from Northern Ireland at the Locarno in Glasgow.
48 KB
1970s, tv and radio, images
Basil Brush
Derek Fowlds with Basil Brush.
29 KB
1970s, tv and radio, images
BBC Logo
Fred Astaire and Michael Parkinson, from 1976.
43 KB
1970s, tv and radio, images
