Meet the Author: Juliet Nicolson, Frostquake

In the harsh winter of 1962-3, when author Juliet Nicholson was just eight years old, snow drifted across Britain for ten uninterrupted weeks. In that time, London milkmen made deliveries on skis, 2,000 Dartmoor ponies were buried in the snow and starving foxes ate sheep alive. 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, and Winston Churchill, still the symbol of Great Britishness, was fading.

In conversation with our records specialist, Mark Dunton, Juliet discusses Frostquake and how, when the thaw came, it became clear that ten weeks of extraordinary weather had acted as a catalyst between two distinct eras.

This online talk will be presented on Teams. You will be emailed an access link shortly before the event is due to start.