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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2977 results found
Beard Growing Competition
Finals of beard growing competition held at Birmingham University, in 1952
21 MB
1950s, people, video
Bellringers
New bells are installed in All Saints Church Stradbroke, Suffolk, in 1952
23 MB
1950s, people, video
Sugar Ray Robinson
Sugar Ray Robinson boxer, is as accomplished as a tap dancer as he is as a boxer, from 1952
19 MB
1950s, sport, video
Schoolroom
Picture shows work done by thirteen year old boys and girls of a secondary school in connection with a series of broadcasts on current affairs. 1953
98 KB
1950s, childhood, images
School Wireless
Picture shows school children listening to French for sixth forms. 1953
70 KB
1950s, childhood, images
Coronation
The Coronation, 1953
6 MB
1960s, events, video
Poultry Show 1
National Poultry Show, Olympia, London. 1953
12 MB
1950s, animals, video
Poultry Show 2
National Poultry Show, Olympia, London. 1953
12 MB
1950s, animals, video
Winston Churchill
The Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, 1953
13 MB
1950s, people, video
Winston Churchill 2
The Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, 1953
12 MB
1950s, people, video
Felling Xmas Tree
Christmas trees are being felled in Harlow to make way for the new-town's town centre. 1953
16 MB
1950s, people, video
Bannister
Although it's the off season for athletics Roger Bannister turned out at Motspur Park to pace his friend, Australian & Olympic miler Don Macmillan. 1953
14 MB
1950s, people, video
