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
Dog
Great Dane dog, Andy, who is trained to escort his owners takings to the bank in Bexley, Kent. From 1959
5 MB
1950s, animals, video
Horse Racing
The 1959 Derby being won by Lord DERBY'S colt Hyperion
4 MB
1950s, sport, video
Zoo
Animals sent to London Zoo from the Sydney Zoo to commemorate Harold Macmillan's visit to Australia in 1959. .
6 MB
1950s, animals, video
Red Panda
Red Himalayan Panda cubs in Frankfurt zoo in West Germany, from 1959.
3 MB
1950s, animals, video
School Children
Victoria Station in 1959. Crowded with school children leaving for the Continent, the BBC handed over their microphone for some amateur reporting.
20 MB
1950s, childhood, video
Pub
Bow Buns on Good Friday, the day of many customs involving the hot-cross bun. The first man into the Coach and Horses at Northfleet, Kent, used a hammer in the traditional way by nailing a hot-cross bun to an oak beam. From 1959.
9 MB
1950s, people, video
Boat Race
A big crowd saw Oxford win the boat race in 1959. Cambridge won the toss and, with a fresh south-west breeze, chose the Surrey side.
6 MB
1950s, sport, video
Nuclear March
Aldermaston anti-nuclear march in 1959: the four day Easter march from Aldermaston ended in Trafalgar Square The procession was joined by thousands of people as it passed through London.
5 MB
1960s, events, video
Brighton Seafront
People promenading at Brighton in 1959.
3 MB
1950s, leisure, video
Seaside Margate
Seaside leisure activities, from Brighton and Ramsgate, from 1959
11 MB
1950s, leisure, video
Traffic
Holiday traffic in the south of England. Most road users made a late start for their outings, as they were tempted outdoors by the afternoon sun.
4 MB
1950s, people, video
Goodwood
Motor Racing At Goodwood from 1959, featuring Stirling Moss.
6 MB
1950s, sport, video
