The Year Without A Summer

In a year where we could all do with a nice summer, what better topic than the year Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death? The summer of 1816 was bleak across Europe and much of north-eastern America. There were frosts in June, months of solid rain and devastating impacts on harvests and food supply. The cause? The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora... For more of Our Stories' work visit www.ourstories.co