Professor Thomas Hills, from Warwick University, said: 'What's remarkable is that national subjective well-being is incredibly resilient to wars. Callaghan was succeeded as leader by the more left-wing Some of the union officials involved, on the other hand, never changed their positions on the strikes. In 1974, about half of the total British workforce was unionised, but 83.1 per cent of all public-sector workers were. 1978 (12th February) The Album – ABBA. 'The study was led by researchers at the University of Warwick, University of Glasgow Adam Smith Business School and The Alan Turing Institute in London.Results could also indicate whether current government policies are more or less likely to increase their citizen's feelings or wellbeing.Governments the world over are making increasing use of 'national happiness' data derived from surveys to help them consider the impact of policy on national wellbeing.But data for most countries is only available from 2011 onwards and for a select few from the mid 1970s.This makes it hard to establish long-run trends, or to say anything about the main historical causes of happiness.In order to tackle this problem, the researchers took a key insight from psychology - that more often than not what people say or write reveals much about their underlying happiness level.They then developed a method to apply it to online texts from millions of books and newspapers published over the past 200 years.The new index was validated against existing survey-based measures and proven to be an accurate guide to the national mood.Jane Fonda raises her clenched fist towards the demonstrators at an Anti Vietnam War Demonstration outside the White House, Washington DC, America - 09 May 1970One theory as to why books and newspaper articles are such a good source of data is that editors prefer to publish pieces which match the mood of their readers.Professor Eugenio Proto, from the University of Glasgow, added: 'Our index is an important first step in understanding people's satisfaction in the past.
1978 (8th January) Disco Fever – Various Artists.
Many remote communities still had not quite recovered from the snowstorm at the beginning of the month.Strikes by essential services dismayed many senior ministers in the Labour government who had been close to the trade union movement, who had thought it unlikely that trade unionists would take such action. One important personality on the TUC General Council had changed earlier in 1978 with After Ford settled, the government announced on 28 November that sanctionsA mild autumn turned cold on the morning of 25 November when temperatures recorded at With the government now having no way of enforcing its pay policy, unions which had not yet put in pay claims began to increase their aim. The spells of snow in winter 2010 were the most widespread and significant across the UK since the mid‐1980s, and 2010 sits high in lists of the snowiest winters of the last 100 years. Overall, the winter of 1979 was the twenty-eighth coldest ever, but the third coldest of the twentieth century.The strikes appeared to have a profound effect on voting intention.
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1978-79: The last really severe, snowy winter, for now anyway, and one my parents go on about!
'The study, which is the first of its kind, used innovative methods to build a new index that uses data from books and newspaper to track levels of national happiness between 1820 and 2009.Piles of Rubbish During the Dustmen's Strike in Britain in 1979.
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