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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Search Results
2977 results found
Teddy Boys
Teddy Boys, 1950s
2 MB
1950s, people, audio
Teddy Boys Night Out
Teddy Boys night out, 1950s
2 MB
1950s, people, audio
Traffic Manager's Office 2
A traffic manager listening to incoming dispatch from a BBC foreign correspondent.
61 KB
1950s, people, images
Traffic Manager's Office
A traffic manager checking on the tape recording of an incoming dispatch from a BBC foreign correspondent
53 KB
1950s, people, images
Treorchy Male Voice Choir
Treorchy Male Voice Choir under their conductor John H. Davies, rehearsing in Glyncolli School, Treorchy, for their broadcast in the General Overseas Services in 1955.
45 KB
1950s, people, images
Westminster Bridge
Journalist Audrey Russell on Westminster bridge during a tour with the BBC Recording car for a programme in the series Report from London.
45 KB
1950s, people, images
Woman Coil Winding
Coil Winding in the BBC Research workshops in Kingswood Warren
37 KB
1950s, people, images
Women's Hour
Elisabeth Frink, the sculptor, Elizabeth Seal, the actress, Jean Metcalfe and Elizabeth Jennings, the poet. Three young Elizabeth's meet on the official birthday of Her Majesty the Queen in a special Younger Woman's edition of a programme.
38 KB
1950s, people, images
Women Working
Women working, 1950s
455 KB
1950s, people, audio
Workshop
One of the Machine shops comprising part of the Workshops in BBC Kingswood Warren
49 KB
1950s, people, images
Boxing Booth
Freddie Mills, the boxer, outside the Boxing Booth at the London Fair which was televised from Earls Court Arena.
43 KB
1950s, sport, images
Boxing Match
A boxing match from the 1980s
11 MB
1950s, sport, video
