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
Knowle West Fancy Dress
Community Fancy Dress Parade, Knowle West, Bristol. 1978
6 MB
1970s, people, video
Petrol Ration Cards
Petrol Rationing Cards and Petrol Rationing, 1978
4 MB
1970s, events, video
Petrol Ration Post Office
People in the post office getting their fuel ration cards stamped, 1978
7 MB
1970s, events, video
Metal Workers
Men working in metal fabrication workshop, 1978
10 MB
1970s, people, video
Metal Workshop
Man working lathe in metal workshop, 1978
6 MB
1970s, people, video
Petrol Attendants
People filling up with fuel at the petrol station, 1978
11 MB
1970s, people, video
Petrol Station
People filling up with fuel at the petrol station, 1978
9 MB
1970s, people, video
Horse Breeder
Horsebreeder from Cambrian Mountains, 1979
89 KB
1970s, animals, images
Abba Skiing
Abba in Swizterland is Abbas first European television Special, filmed on the ski slopes at Leysin in the Swiss Alps. 1979
84 KB
1970s, music, images
David Bowie
David Bowie at Heathrow Airport in 1990
77 KB
1970s, music, images
Generation X
Generation X appearing on 'Top of the Pops' in the 1970s
95 KB
1970s, music, images
Pauline Black
Pauline Black of The Selecter backstage at 'Top of the Pops' 1979
57 KB
1970s, music, images