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.

Notes on downloading:

  • Downloading video items will include both the video files and a ‘poster image’ for each video
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Search Results

2977 results found

  1. Llandaff Cathedral

    BBC Welsh Orchestra and soloists at Llandaff cathedral, Cardiff in 1961

    50 KB

    1960s, people, images

  2. M & S

    People at Marks & Spencer in the 1960s

    10 MB

    1960s, people, video

  3. Male Voice Choir

    Treorchy Male Voice Choir in 1966

    41 KB

    1960s, people, images

  4. Martin Luther King

    Dr Martin Luther King, Minister of the Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, is sketched by Polish artist ,Feliks Topolski, before his appearance on BBC TVs 'Face To Face' programme on Sunday, 29th October 1961.

    30 KB

    1960s, people, images

  5. Miniskirts

    Woman wearing mini skirts.

    60 KB

    1960s, people, images

  6. Monte Carlo Rally

    The Monte Carlo Rally Crew NO.222 outside Television Centre. This Ford Zephyr will be driven by Dimmock, Head of BBC Television Outside Broadcasts, who introduces Sportsview.

    46 KB

    1960s, people, images

  7. Motorcycle Youths

    Some of the youths gathered round an old oak tree which forms the subject of the BBC TV programme, 'The Major'. From 1963.

    81 KB

    1960s, people, images

  8. Nostalgia

    Nostalgia, 1960s

    1 MB

    1960s, people, audio

  9. Nurse

    A BBC External Services producer, talking to a Staff Nurse from Nigeria at the Royal Eye Hospital, Manchester, for the programme Immigrants at Work.

    48 KB

    1960s, people, images

  10. Office

    Staff are pictured at their desks in an office within BBC Wales Cymru Broadcasting House Cardiff. 1967

    54 KB

    1960s, people, images

  11. Outside Old Trafford

    Crowds and police outside Old Trafford football ground, home of Manchester United.

    55 KB

    1960s, people, images

  12. Oxford Street

    Oxford Circus Tube Station, Oxford Street in the 1960s

    126 KB

    1960s, people, images