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

  1. Broadcasting House

    Members of the Crayford Ladies Choir, the Crayford Manor House Mixed Voice Choir and the Orpington Junior Singers arriving at BBC Broadcasting House. 143 choirs - over 7000 amateur musicians from all parts of the country - took part in the national Let the People Sing competition in 1960.

    64 KB

    1960s, people, images

  2. Car Park

    Car park at BBC Television Centre, Wood Lane.

    90 KB

    1960s, people, images

  3. Cars

    Cars, 1960s

    748 KB

    1960s, people, audio

  4. Carsin Street

    Elevations of 33, 34 and 35 Marylebone High Street, W.1.

    61 KB

    1960s, people, images

  5. Class

    Children Talking - Class, 1960s

    473 KB

    1960s, people, audio

  6. Cooper Initiation

    Bernard Palmer interviewing a young cooper at the end of his initiation ceremony at Whitbreds. A few minutes earlier he had been built into the barrel and covered with wood shavings, soot, saw dust and beer.

    50 KB

    1960s, people, images

  7. Cutting Room

    The cutting room at BBC Wales Llandaff 1960's

    96 KB

    1960s, people, images

  8. Discussion Group

    An after-dinner discussion for a television programme marking St. David's Day.

    43 KB

    1960s, people, images

  9. Drinks

    Roy Hudd, Marcia Ashton, Dennis Main Wilson, Stratford Johns and Douglas Fisher having a drink in the club bar at BBC Television Centre.

    31 KB

    1960s, people, images

  10. Factory Mill

    David Dimbleby looks at some of the machinery in a Mill in a programme centered around the men and women who work on the shop floor of a big industrial concern.

    72 KB

    1960s, people, images

  11. Fashion

    Fashion, 1960s

    1 MB

    1960s, people, audio

  12. Fleet Street

    Looking west down Fleet Street, London, c1969. The Irish Independent building, Daily and Sunday Express building, and the Daily Telegraph building, with the clock just visible, can be seen.

    115 KB

    1960s, people, images