1816, the Year Without a Summer
In Our Time
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The Byron Shelley Circle
In 1817, 1818, the price of bread more or less doubles in this country. But we don't have a subsistence crisis in the same way that Central Europe has. We're able to import flour and grain from those parts of the United States and the West which are not so badly affected. Something like half a million barrels of flour come into Liverpool in 1818. In that year, Britain imports more food stuffs than in any other year, thus far, in British history.
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