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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CCTV
Start of TV traffic control in Durham. 1957
9 MB
1950s, events, video
Steamroller 1
A Buckinghamshire doctor - Dr George Flew, of Burnham, has realised a boyhood ambition - he has bought himself a steamroller. 1957
14 MB
1950s, leisure, video
Steamroller 2
A Buckinghamshire doctor - Dr George Flew, of Burnham, has realised a boyhood ambition - he has bought himself a steamroller. 1957
15 MB
1950s, leisure, video
Macmillan
Mr Macmillan and wife leave British Embassy Church in Paris. 1957
11 MB
1950s, events, video
Father Christmas
Children enjoying Christmas. 1957
10 MB
1950s, childhood, video
Christmas Shopping
People Christmas Shopping. 1965
18 MB
1950s, people, video
Cockatoo
David Attenborough, Prince Charles (then Duke of Cornwall), Princess Anne. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Cornwall and Princess Anne visited the BBC studios at Shepherd's Bush, London, on Monday, April 28th, to watch the Childrens Magazine progrmme 'Studio E'. After the programme they met David Attenborough and the animals which he had presented on the screen. David Attenborough introduces Cocky, his pet cockatoo, to the Royal children.
56 KB
1950s, animals, images
This Is Your Life - Tommy Steele
Tommy Steele (centre) with members of the cast who appeared on the show 'This Is Your Life'. 1958
74 KB
1950s, tv and radio, images
Circus Performer
Picture shows Orhan Boran of the BBC Turkish Service visiting the Bertram Mills Circus at Olympia, London. Here he records a little girl in conversation with one of the performers.
55 KB
1950s, people, images
Como Cole Clooney
Perry Como with two of Americas top singing stars, Rosemary Clooney and Nat King Cole. 1959
77 KB
1950s, music, images
Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro - Cuban Revolution, 1959
2 MB
1960s, events, video
Cannon Street Station
Cannon Street Station construction work in 1959. Workmen completed the removal of 2,000 tons of metal roof from the Cannon Street station twin towers after the glass blew out in bombing during the war. The roof, designed by Sir John Hawkshaw, is gone but the towers remain.
7 MB
1960s, events, video
