Climate & Weather (TRIH ep 89)

1978 · Resource

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook present a themed episode listing ten ways weather and climate altered history. They open with deep-time effects — the Quaternary Ice Age enabling settled British habitation and the Holocene birth of urbanism — then move through major climate episodes: the Late Antique Cooling (6th century volcanic dust veil) linked to famine, plague and geopolitical shifts; the Little Ice Age and the 17th-century "Global Crisis"; and the Great Frost of 1709 shaping the...

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