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
Chelsea FC
Chelsea FC backstage on 'Top of the Pops'. 1972
84 KB
1970s, sport, images
Percy Thrower
Percy Thrower, 1972
57 KB
1970s, tv and radio, images
Boat Race
Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge being filmed by the BBC, 1972
80 KB
1970s, sport, images
George Best
George Best playing for Manchester United early 1970's
56 KB
1970s, sport, images
John Bolan Stewart
Elton John, Marc Bolan and Rod Stewart backstage at Top of the Pops. 1972
59 KB
1970s, music, images
Uriah Heep
Uriah Heep backstage at 'Top of the Pops', 1972
56 KB
1970s, music, images
Lynsey De Paul
Lynsey de Paul on 'Top of the Pops' in August 1972
37 KB
1970s, music, images
Alan Hudson
Alan Hudson, Footballer, 1972
31 KB
1970s, sport, images
Youth club
Youth club, 1972
10 MB
1970s, childhood, video
Elton John
Elton John at Heathrow after returning from his Russian Tour of 1979 The son of a former Royal Air Force trumpeter, Elton John was born Reginald Kenneth Dwight in 1947.
64 KB
1970s, music, images
10CC
10cc backstage on 'Top of the Pops' in Sept 1972.
68 KB
1970s, music, images
The Stylistics
The Stylistics backstage at 'Top of the Pops'. 1972
150 KB
1970s, music, images
