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.
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Search Results
2977 results found
Bonfire Night
People preparing for Bonfire Night. 1951
11 MB
1950s, events, video
Stick Of Rock
Sticks of rock being made by hand in a factory. 1951
22 MB
1950s, people, video
The Muffin Printers 1
A behind the scenes look of a children's book being printed. 1951
24 MB
1950s, people, video
Attlee Election
35 days to Polling Day 1951
19 MB
1950s, events, video
Pub Drinkers
People in the pub, 1951
97 KB
1950s, leisure, images
Rock Climbing
12 members of the RAF's mountain rescue unit went to Snowdonia in 1951 to learn new skills in climbing. Their task is to give immediate assistance to crashed planes.
22 MB
1950s, leisure, video
Christmas Turkey
With just a few days left before Christmas,it's the end of a short life for the inhabitants of a turkey farm.
14 MB
1950s, animals, video
Golfing
The new year will bring a change to the rules of golf, for with the ending of the stymie, an opponents ball blocking a putt can be removed. 1951
8 MB
1950s, sport, video
Winnie The Pooh
Picture shows Winnie the Pooh and Piglet sitting in the snow. A series of programmes based on the stories by A.A. Milne.
83 KB
1950s, tv and radio, images
Identity Cards
Pauline Markow, a German visitor became the last person to receive an identity card in West London. 1952
6 MB
1950s, events, video
Boat Race
Oxford v Cambridge Boat Race, 1952
60 KB
1950s, people, images
Tommy Cooper
Tommy Cooper, 1952
42 KB
1950s, tv and radio, images
