The Resource Frostquake : the frozen winter of 1962 and how Britain emerged a different country, Juliet Nicolson
Frostquake : the frozen winter of 1962 and how Britain emerged a different country, Juliet Nicolson
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The item Frostquake : the frozen winter of 1962 and how Britain emerged a different country, Juliet Nicolson represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham Libraries.
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- Summary
- On Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not stop for ten weeks. It was one of the coldest and harshest winters for 300 years. The drifts in East Sussex reached twenty-three feet. In London, milkmen made deliveries on skis. On Dartmoor 2,000 ponies were buried in the snow, and foxes ate sheep alive. It wasn't just the weather that was bad. The threat of nuclear war had reached its terrifying height with the recent Cuban Missile Crisis. Unemployment was on the rise, de Gaulle was blocking Britain from joining the European Economic Community, Winston Churchill, still the symbol of Great Britishness, was fading. These shadows hung over a country paralysed by frozen heating oil, burst pipes and power cuts which are explored here
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 356 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781784742959
- Label
- Frostquake : the frozen winter of 1962 and how Britain emerged a different country
- Title
- Frostquake
- Title remainder
- the frozen winter of 1962 and how Britain emerged a different country
- Statement of responsibility
- Juliet Nicolson
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- On Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not stop for ten weeks. It was one of the coldest and harshest winters for 300 years. The drifts in East Sussex reached twenty-three feet. In London, milkmen made deliveries on skis. On Dartmoor 2,000 ponies were buried in the snow, and foxes ate sheep alive. It wasn't just the weather that was bad. The threat of nuclear war had reached its terrifying height with the recent Cuban Missile Crisis. Unemployment was on the rise, de Gaulle was blocking Britain from joining the European Economic Community, Winston Churchill, still the symbol of Great Britishness, was fading. These shadows hung over a country paralysed by frozen heating oil, burst pipes and power cuts which are explored here
- Cataloging source
- StDuBDS
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Nicolson, Juliet
- Dewey number
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- 306'.0941'09046
- 306'.0941'09046
- 306.094109046
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Great Britain
- Winter
- Cold waves (Meteorology)
- Snow
- Great Britain
- Society
- Label
- Frostquake : the frozen winter of 1962 and how Britain emerged a different country, Juliet Nicolson
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 9781784742959
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- 356 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781784742959
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations (black and white)
- Label
- Frostquake : the frozen winter of 1962 and how Britain emerged a different country, Juliet Nicolson
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 9781784742959
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- 356 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781784742959
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations (black and white)
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