We are supposed to be heading for the coldest winter in 30 years — but how does it measure up against the great chills of history?
There was no central heating to keep Britons warm between the 1500s and mid-1800s, a period known as ‘The Little Ice Age’.
This name was coined to tie together all the different global cooling events which took place, which produced the very coldest series of British winters for millennia.
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