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
Kidswatch TV
Picture shows children viewing on one of the class rooms. 1952
74 KB
1950s, childhood, images
Stars On Ice
Ice Skaters. 1952
15 MB
1950s, leisure, video
Yorkshire Cricket
Yorkshire Cricket team getting ready for the season ahead. 1952
18 MB
1950s, sport, video
Londons Last Tram
Londons last tram made its farewell run. Trams have been in service in London for 91 years. 1952
14 MB
1950s, events, video
Back To School 1
Back to school. 1952
9 MB
1950s, childhood, video
Backto School 2
Back to school. 1952
8 MB
1950s, childhood, video
Back To School 3
Back to school. 1952
14 MB
1950s, childhood, video
Back To School 4
Back to school. 1952
8 MB
1950s, childhood, video
Kiwi Puppet
puppet 'Kirri the Kiwi' who appears in 'For The Children', November 1952.
70 KB
1950s, childhood, images
Modelcars
Stirling Moss opens an exhibition of model racing cars in London, in 1952
22 MB
1950s, childhood, video
Airmail
Pilot flying airmail plane, from 1952
22 MB
1960s, events, video
Eros Statue Picadilly
The statue of Eros in Piccadilly Circus is hauled down and taken away for cleaning in 1952
13 MB
1960s, events, video
