Hi everybody, welcome to Dan Snow's History Hit.

You heard Julie Nicholson on the podcast before, she was recently on talking about the centenary

of the Langs' arrest of the unknown warrior in Westminster Abbey, and she mentioned when

she came on that podcast in November that she was just completing her book on a very

cold winter, a very cold snap of weather in the UK that changed Britain forever and imposed

upon everybody a kind of lockdown.

Lots of important historical residents there.

She was eight years old in 1962, the snow started falling in December right across the

UK and it didn't stop for ten weeks, but ten weeks Britain was frozen solid, it was one

of the coldest winters in Britain in recorded history.

But as Julie says beneath the frozen surface, New Life was green to stir, listen to how

she makes the link between that winter, the 60s and big changes in our society.

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But in the meantime, folks, enjoy Juliet Nicholson talking about Frost Quake.

Juliet, thank you so much for coming back on the podcast.

Such a pleasure to be asked again, Dan.

Now, we are talking. This is almost like it was planned.

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