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Why did Mac think life was so great in the 1950s?

Harold Macmillan

Entertainment

"The people of Britain never had it so good"

Use these sources – a mixture of film extracts, images and documents – to compare entertainment in the 1930s and 1940s with entertainment in the 1950s. This should help you to see why Mac thought life was so good in the 1950s.

Once you have looked through the five sources below, follow the link ‘Challenge Mac’ to explore whether Prime Minister Macmillan was telling the full story.



Combining documents, photographs and film from The National Archives, English Heritage
and the British Film Institute, in association with South East Grid for Learning


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