How and why has British society changed over the last 50 years?
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Grant Wolstenholme's earliest memories are the black-and-white images of Bobby Moore lifting the World Cup and Neil Armstrong stepping on to the moon. 'We talked about how we would go on holidays to the moon and one day all live there,' he says.
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.
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Much has changed since then. Britain's population has increased, become older and more international. 8.3m more people live in the UK today, an increase of 14%. ... The UK economy grew far faster in 2000 than it has in recent years, yet the unemployment rate today, at 3.8%, is well below the 5.5% rate seen in 2000.