We sent you this booklet for your birthday in 2025. It features recent research on a range of topics such as dental health, diet and families. Please note this web version includes a correction to the article about healthy weight in childhood that was made after the printed booklet was sent to you. 

This booklet was sent to you in April 2024. It gives you more information about the Life in Your Early 50s Survey and covers key findings from the study. This includes challenging stereotypes of only children, the link between living near fast food outlets and obesity, how behavioural problems in childhood are connected to voting […]

This booklet was sent to you in April 2023. It gives you more information about the Life in Your Early 50s Survey and covers findings in relation to the gender pay gap, life satisfaction and the early roots of midlife fitness. It also includes an update on the new BCS70 woodland.

This booklet was sent to you in April 2022. It gives you more information about the Life in Your Early 50s Survey and covers findings from the COVID-19 survey and other recent research using BCS70. It also includes an update on the new BCS70 woodland.

This booklet was sent to you in April 2021. It covers discoveries from the first COVID-19 survey and key findings from the study about your health. It also explores the influence of childhood circumstances on adult happiness.

Download the transcript for episode 6 of our podcast series ’50 Years of Life in Britain’, and listen below. Our last episode of the series examines how BCS70 and our study members have been faring during the pandemic and looks to the future of longitudinal research. We find out more about the COVID-19 survey, sent to […]

Download the transcript for episode 5 of our podcast series ’50 Years of Life in Britain’, and listen below. In this episode, we move into the 2010s to find out how our study members were faring in their forties. We learn how BCS70 cast light on increasing rates of mental ill-health among men, and find […]

Download the transcript for episode 4 of our podcast series ’50 Years of Life in Britain’, and listen below. In this fourth episode, we move into the new millennium, when the study enjoyed a golden decade. With BCS70 greatly valued by scientists and policymakers, the study was funded to meet participants on three occasions and […]

Download the transcript for episode 3 of our podcast series ’50 Years of Life in Britain’, and listen below. In this third episode, we move into the 1990s to find out how BCS70 and its staff survived the lean years of the 80s and early 90s, and managed to get back in contact with study […]

Download the transcript for episode 2 of our podcast series ’50 Years of Life in Britain’, and listen below. In this second episode, we move into the 1980s to find out how Neville Butler kept BCS70 going during a decade of austerity. We learn about the benefits of reading for pleasure for children’s English and maths […]