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
PE Handstand
Picture shows two children balancing taken for General Science, spring term 1950.
36 KB
1950s, childhood, images
Cinema
Reminiscing about the cinema experience of the 1940s and 50s
376 KB
1950s, leisure, audio
Favourite Film
Programme looks at golden days of British cinema going.
2 MB
1950s, leisure, audio
Singing In The Rain
Programme looks at golden days of British cinema going.
3 MB
1950s, leisure, audio
Chick
Chick is a former miner from Pontefract in Yorkshire. He discusses his life in a conversation with his granddaughter Lindsay, whose eyes are set on a very different career path.
998 KB
1950s, people, audio
Mother And Daughter
Betty, a retired cook from Hull, chats with her daughter, Elaine - a cleaner - about bringing up ten children with lots of love, but not much money.
2 MB
1950s, people, audio
Nine Siblings
Betty, a retired cook from Hull, chats with her daughter, Elaine - a cleaner - about bringing up ten children with lots of love, but not much money.
3 MB
1950s, people, audio
Bricklayers
Bricklayers college, Stoke On Trent. 1950
17 MB
1950s, people, video
Electricity
The National Control Centre of the British Electricity Authority constantly watch consumption & output of electricity to ensure there are few shortages. From 1950
22 MB
1950s, people, video
Heathrow Airport
Heathrow Airport installs a new radar traffic control system in 1950
16 MB
1960s, events, video
Andy Pandy
Picture shows - four children seated watching Andy Pandy (Andy Pandy came to the screen in March 1950)
94 KB
1950s, childhood, images
Boat Race
Cameraman filming the annual Oxford V Cambridge Boat Race, 1950
63 KB
1950s, events, images
