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.
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Scramble
Nearly fifty motor cyclists competed for the Daily Heralds National Team Scramble Championships at Hawkstone in Shropshire yesterday. 1954
13 MB
1950s, leisure, video
London Evening Standard
Paper vans and paper sellers on the streets of London. 1954
7 MB
1950s, people, video
Recorder Ensemble
School Recorder Ensemble performance. 1954
9 MB
1950s, childhood, video
Recorder Ensemble
School Recorder Ensemble performance. 1954
9 MB
1950s, music, video
Rowing Squad
Rowing squad training on river. 1955
11 MB
1950s, sport, video
Rugby France Scotland
A thirty thousand strong crowd watched France beat Scotland on Saturday, in the first of this year's Rugby Union Internationals. 1955
8 MB
1950s, sport, video
Rugby Union
A thirty thousand strong crowd watched France beat Scotland on Saturday, in the first of this year's Rugby Union Internationals. 1955
4 MB
1950s, sport, video
Rugby Union Wales
In this afternoon's rugby international matches, France beat Ireland in Dublin and in Cardiff Wales beat England by three points to nil. 1955
9 MB
1950s, sport, video
Frankie Howerd
Frankie Howerd and Gladys Norgan get a little tired of the antics of ''Angus McFizzert'', otherwise Lee Young who is one of the resident singers in this weekly variety series broadcast in the BBC light programme.
57 KB
1950s, tv and radio, images
Highway Code
The new Highway Code was introduced today by the Transport Minister Mr Boyd-Carpenter. 1955
6 MB
1950s, events, video
General Election
Wyn Roberts, Mr. Thomas, Mrs. Thomas and Mrs. and Mr. Thomass son. The General Election, May 26th, 1955. Cwmheldeg
99 KB
1950s, people, images
Dr Dias
Dr Dias da Graca from the Portuguese island of St. Thomas consulting a sign post outside the Royal Festival Hall.
61 KB
1950s, people, images
