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. Petula Clark

    Petula Clark on 'Top of the Pops' in 1971

    51 KB

    1970s, music, images

  2. Construction Workers

    Men working on construction site erecting building, early 1970s

    6 MB

    1970s, people, video

  3. Factory Girls 1

    Women working machinery in factory, early 1970s

    6 MB

    1970s, people, video

  4. Factory Girls 2

    Women working machinery in factory, early 1970s

    6 MB

    1970s, people, video

  5. Factory Girls 3

    Women working machinery in factory, early 1970s

    4 MB

    1970s, people, video

  6. Bread Of Heaven

    Miners arriving at work at the Merthyr Colliery after 7 weeks away. 1971

    9 MB

    1970s, people, video

  7. Merthyr Miners 2

    Miners arriving at work at the Merthyr Colliery after 7 weeks away. 1971

    12 MB

    1970s, people, video

  8. Merthyr Miners 3

    Miners arriving at work at the Merthyr Colliery after 7 weeks away. 1971

    12 MB

    1970s, people, video

  9. Printing Press

    People working in newspaper printing press, early 1970s

    6 MB

    1970s, people, video

  10. South Wales Argus

    Shots of the old South Wales Argus offices in Newport, early 1970s

    4 MB

    1970s, people, video

  11. Children Lamb

    Tony Soper at Newton Park Training College, Bath, with some of the children who have been working on projects concerned with animal behaviour

    97 KB

    1970s, animals, images

  12. Birdwatchers

    (l-r) keen birdwatchers Robert Dougall, Joyce Grenfell and (front) Nigel Stock are three of six well-known personalities who will be talking about their interest in wildlife and its conservation in 'Sounds Natural'

    85 KB

    1970s, tv and radio, images