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.
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Doll's House
Sylvia Peters showing a furnished dolls house in For Your Christmas Stocking showing some of the new toys to be found in the shops.
51 KB
1950s, childhood, images
Newsagents
BBC Publications displayed in the shop window of a Wembley newsagent to mark the Coronation of HM Queen Elizabeth II
58 KB
1950s, childhood, images
PE Lesson
Children balancing
47 KB
1950s, childhood, images
PE Lesson Girls
Children balancing
49 KB
1950s, childhood, images
Pets' Corner
Children's Newsreel cameraman filming young boy feeding baby goats in the Pets Corner at Chessington Zoo. Centre background is the Head Keeper of Pets Corner.
60 KB
1950s, childhood, images
Punch & Judy
Children enjoying a Punch and Judy show by entertainer
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1950s, childhood, images
Robot Toy
A clockwork robot which is a reproduction of a 1950s Japanese toy
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1950s, childhood, images
Toy Horse Race
Toy horse race at the Jardin d'Acclimatation zoological garden in the Bois de Boulogne.
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1950s, childhood, images
Coronation Day 2
Coronation Day - The coach passes down Victoria embankment on it's way to Westminster Abbey
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1950s, events, images
Coronation Day 3
The Coronation - the state coach passes out of Buckingham Palace, with Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip.
141 KB
1950s, events, images
Coronation Day 4
The coach containing Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret, in the procession at the Coronation, surrounded by crowds
155 KB
1950s, events, images
Coronation Day
Coronation Day - The Queen surrounded by crowds after the coronation
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1950s, events, images
