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
Julie Andrews
Julie Andrews in 1953.
55 KB
1950s, people, images
King George
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth touring the Festival of Britain at the South Bank, London.
37 KB
1950s, people, images
Lowestoft Fishermen
Fisherman in Lowerstoft, Suffolk
61 KB
1950s, people, images
Lowestoft Fisher Wives
Lowestoft Harbour FisherWives
50 KB
1950s, people, images
Lowestoft Harbour
Lowestoft Harbour where herrings are sold by auction
52 KB
1950s, people, images
BBC Maida Vale Canteen
The Canteen in BBC Maida Vale which overlooks a pleasant garden.
67 KB
1950s, people, images
Male Portrait
The BBC's assistant head of popular music.
24 KB
1950s, people, images
Man Drawing
Peter Scott drawing a Dodo.
32 KB
1950s, people, images
Nurse And Sister With Baby
A sister and a student nurse discuss one of the babies in a maternity ward.
34 KB
1950s, people, images
Nurse Portrait
Staff nurse Crinson records her impressions whilst working night duty in Charing Cross Hospital
39 KB
1950s, people, images
Office Drawing
General view of the Drawing Office in BBC Kingswood Warren building.
37 KB
1950s, people, images
Office Meeting
A meeting of BBC producers in 1954.
51 KB
1950s, people, images
