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
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- Downloading image items will just include the images
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Search Results
2977 results found
Club Librarian
The Assistant BBC Club Librarian.
40 KB
1950s, people, images
Coffee Drinkers
An Italian coffee-drinking contest held in a London coffee bar
51 KB
1950s, people, images
Communal Gardening
BBC staff volunteers digging in the BBC Town Garden in Cavendish Place.
89 KB
1950s, people, images
Doctors
A doctor examines the throat of a young girl
34 KB
1950s, people, images
Doctor's Waiting Room
A doctors waiting room
53 KB
1950s, people, images
Drinks
The Surrey Street premises of the BBC Club Bush House branch
32 KB
1950s, people, images
End Of The Dancehall
End of the dancehall, 1950s
2 MB
1950s, people, audio
Engelmann
Franklin Engelmann talking to promenades at the BBC Proms
47 KB
1950s, people, images
Engineers
Two engineers of the BBC Aerial Section carry out experiments with model aerials in the grounds of Kingswood Warren.
48 KB
1950s, people, images
Fishermen
North Sea Fisherman who were interviewed for the BBC Italian Section
53 KB
1950s, people, images
Gardening Club
Percy Thrower is advising the gents on the winter storing of vegetables Gardening Club
64 KB
1950s, people, images
Independent Women
Independent women, 1950s
403 KB
1950s, people, audio
