The BBC is making thousands of fascinating clips from its archive available to watch on a new website – bbc.co.uk/archive
More than 1,700 newly published videos are being made available for viewers to watch and enjoy, many of which hold a mirror up to our lives today and help paint a rich social history of Britain in the television era.
The new Archive site will help people navigate an ever-increasing portion of the more than 10 million hours of content that currently sit in the BBC’s archive. It will be curated by the same team that currently mines the vaults for the ever popular BBC Archive social media accounts, which have attracted a loyal and ever-increasing daily following over the past four years.
The website brings together collections of many viral hits, including:
- A woman from the east end of London talking in 1977 about her memories of television programmes, which since July has received almost three million views on social media
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