Inflation basket of goods highlights seven decades of changing UK lifestyles

Its contents have not only changed but have expanded greatly since the price of a 'typical' shopping basket began being record in 1947 to help calculate inflation

What's in, what's out? It's time for the annual reshuffle of the shopping basket used to measure inflation in the UK, almost 70 years since it was first compiled.

The updated contents of the virtual shopping basket will be revealed by the Office for National Statistics on Tuesday. Looking back over the past eight decades, they paint a fascinating picture of changing lifestyles in Britain.