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
London Boat Sing Song
Revellers enjoying a summer boat trip along the Thames, followed by a sing song. 1960
9 MB
1960s, leisure, video
Market Traders
Market stall holders selling their wares. 1960
7 MB
1960s, people, video
Holborn Library
Holborn Library, a modern library in an historic setting, across the road from the dignified buildings and lawns of Grey's Inn in Holborn stands London's newest Library, which opened to the public this week. 1960
6 MB
1960s, people, video
Model Trams
The Tramway and Light Railway Society have their centenary model tram exhibition in Bishopsgate, London today. 1960
10 MB
1960s, leisure, video
Cricket Match
Cricket Match. 1960
4 MB
1960s, sport, video
David Attenborough
David Attenborough, 1960
52 KB
1960s, tv and radio, images
Black Arrows
At Biggin Hill a crowd of 180,000 watched the Black Arrows making their last appearance together. 1960
5 MB
1960s, events, video
Animal Magic Iguana
Johnny Morris on his rounds. Keeper Morris is shown with an iguana.
33 KB
1960s, animals, images
Blue Peter Cat
Jason the Blue Peter cat
40 KB
1960s, animals, images
Dog Patch
Patch the Blue Peter dog. Patch appeared on the show between 1965 & 1971
32 KB
1960s, animals, images
Parrot 2
Barney The Blue Peter Parrot, who appeared on the show in 1968 & 1969
49 KB
1960s, animals, images
Parrot A
Joey The Blue Peter Parrot, who appeared on the show from 1966 to 1968
39 KB
1960s, animals, images
