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
Tea Tent
The BBC Club Summer Festival at Motspur Park. Featured are the tea tent and the Kodak military Band
56 KB
1950s, leisure, images
Telly
1950s style television set at the London Transport Museum
62 KB
1950s, leisure, images
Trampoline
BBC staff member on the trampoline at the BBC Club Summer Festival, Motspur Park in 1959.
54 KB
1950s, leisure, images
Village Sports Day
Village Sports Day, 1950s
749 KB
1950s, leisure, audio
BBC Orchestra
The BBC Dance Orchestra with Alyn Ainsworth.
50 KB
1950s, music, images
Buddy Holly
Buddy Holly and the Crickets: Joe Malden (bass), Buddy Holly (vocals and guitar) and Jerry Allison (drums).
51 KB
1950s, music, images
Debris Jam
A young man playing the guitar in the 1950s
12 MB
1950s, music, video
Dill Jones Trio
The Dill Jones Trio: seen in 'Jazz Session'. Left to right: Malcolm Cecil (bass), Danny Craig (drums), Dill Jones (piano) and Jo Searle (vocalist).
48 KB
1950s, music, images
Duke Ellington
The world famous jazz musician, composer and conductor Duke Ellington and also world famous alto sax player, Johnny Hodges who first played with the Duke Ellington Orchestra in 1928.
45 KB
1950s, music, images
Eartha Kitt
Eartha Kitt in 1956.
28 KB
1950s, music, images
Elvis Wannabe
An Elvis wannabe from the 1950s
13 MB
1950s, music, video
Gene Pitney
Gene Pitney singing
26 KB
1950s, music, images
