Elisa Segrave

A beastly cold country: Britain in 1962

Establishment hypocrisy and a general hostility towards immigrants and homosexuals coincided with one of the harshest winters on record, says Juliet Nicolson

Seaton Carew, Co. Durham in the winter of 1962. Credit: Getty Images

  • Frostquake: The Frozen Winter of 1962 and How Britain Emerged a Different Country

    Juliet Nicolson

    Chatto & Windus, pp. 356, £18

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