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
Concert
Open Air Symphony Concert, Crystal Palace, 1964, London
120 KB
1960s, leisure, images
Crockfords Club
Crockfords Club, 1960s London Gentleman's Club
114 KB
1960s, leisure, images
First Holidays Abroad
First holidays abroad , 1970s
598 KB
1960s, leisure, audio
Penarth Pier Fishers
A group of BBC staff with fishing rods at Penarth pier.
44 KB
1960s, leisure, images
Percy Thrower Gardening
Percy Thrower planting polyanthus for the Spring display
57 KB
1960s, leisure, images
Scuba Diver
Hans Hass filming under water as part of the final 'Adventure' series. On his shoulder hangs a shark stick, which can be grabbed when necessary.
67 KB
1960s, leisure, images
Swimming Baths
Portadown swimming baths pool, children adults play in water, dive in, form 1969
6 MB
1960s, leisure, video
Bandstand
A brass band play on a bandstand in 1960s
16 MB
1960s, music, video
Billy J Kramer
Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas
30 KB
1960s, music, images
Brian Poole & The Tremeloes
Brian Poole and the Tremolos during rehearsal for 'Top Of The Pops' on Wednesday 20 May 1964.
41 KB
1960s, music, images
Buddy Rich
Drummer Bernard 'Buddy' Rich in the series 'Jazz At The Maltings'. The programme was recorded in the Adelburgh Festival Concert Hall
27 KB
1960s, music, images
Carol Choir
Conductor Trevor Harvey conducting an audience at carol concert held the Royal Festival Hall in 1963.
54 KB
1960s, music, images
