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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2977 results found
Cat Stevens
Cat Stevens (aka Yusuf Islam) performs on 'Top of the Pops', May 1971.
52 KB
1970s, music, images
The Move
The Move backstage at 'Top of the Pops' in June 1971. L-R Roy Wood, Bev Bevan and Jeff Lynne.
62 KB
1970s, music, images
Horse Racing
Horse racing at Downpatrick in Northern Ireland in 1969
81 KB
1970s, sport, images
Kenneth Williams
Kenneth Williams. 1971
41 KB
1970s, tv and radio, images
The Supremes & The 4 Tops
The Supremes and the Four Tops backstage at 'Top of the Pops' in July 1971.
111 KB
1970s, music, images
Engelbert
Engelbert Humperdinck on 'Top of the Pops' in 1971
60 KB
1970s, music, images
Fleet Street
Fleet Street, 1971
105 KB
1970s, people, images
The Who
The Who, 1971
88 KB
1970s, music, images
The Who Colour
The Who, 1971
99 KB
1970s, music, images
Dive In To Pool
Man diving into a swimming pool, 1972
42 KB
1970s, leisure, images
Anita Harris
Anita Harris backstage at 'Top of the Pops' 1972
48 KB
1970s, music, images
Billy Preston
Billy Preston on 'Top of the Pops', 1972
62 KB
1970s, music, images