Watch: Were people really happier in 1957? Notts TV asks the experts

“Most of our people have never had it so good” said Prime Minister Harold MacMillan in 1957.

Now in 2017, a new university study reckons that he might’ve been onto something.

Scientists at Warwick University have for the first time used an algorithm to measure the nation’s happiness in every year since 1776.

And their report suggests aside from a spike in the third quarter of the 19th century, the British people has never been happier than they were in 1957.

Notts TV’s Richard Minkley’s been talking to the folk at Acorn House Care Home, Carrington, to see if the scientists are right.

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