
Britain’s transformation during the Queen’s lifetime
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The Queen Has Changed, but Not at All
In the fifties, leisure, affluence and consumerism are sweeping across the nation. How does this affect ordinary britons? What kind of hobbies are they taking up? What clothes are they wearing? What new gadgets do they have in their homes? So the first half of the f50s is pretty grey. And then in the second half of the foot is, as you say, absolutely rightly, everything explodes. There's a huge economic growth for people in work. They're taking home more wages than ever. You can walk out of a job on friday and walk into a new one on monday. Ah, so it seems like these are kind of boom times
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