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

Harold Macmillan
Houses and Homes

"The people of Britain never had it so good"

Use these sources – a mixture of film extracts, images and documents - to compare houses and homes in the 1930s and 1940s with houses and homes 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 to ‘Challenge Mac’ to explore whether Prime Minister Macmillan was telling the full story.

   
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Challenge Mac
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Houses and Homes Source 1
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Housing and Homes Source 2
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Houses and Homes Source 3
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Housing Problems Source 4
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Houses and Homes Source 5
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Houses and Homes Challenge Mac
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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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