How and why has British society changed over the last 50 years?
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The British landscape has seen significant change over the last century. Cities have expanded, villages have disappeared, coastlines have eroded, bridges have been built and town centres have been bombarded.
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Born in 1958, Grant spent his childhood playing with friends outdoors, whittling wood with his penknife and riding his bike through fields. His parents did not know then that their son was one of a generation that would form part of the most remarkable and largest sociological experiments of the past century.
In the year of his birth, midwives across Britain were charged with identifying every one of the 17,000 children born in one week. Then, with their parents' permission, they started tracking what the children experienced in their lives from that moment on.
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For nearly half a century social scientists have scrutinised every aspect of their lives from childhood and adolescence through their teenage years and into adulthood. The study was so successful that in 1970 it was repeated with another 17,000 babies and then, in 2000, another 18,000. Details about their hobbies, friendships, aspirations, education, careers, health and love lives have been used to build up the most detailed picture of three generations ever created.