video record
Media not available in the Digital Archive
Description
'This programme looks at the Laki eruption on Iceland in 1783. It considers the immediate impact on Iceland and across Europe where a sulphuric haze engulfed North-Western Europe for several months.... The programme uses the contemporary testimonies of Jón Steingrímsson and Gilbert White to examine the effects of the eruption in Iceland and across Europe.'
Metadata describing this Open University video programme
Series: Timewatch
First transmission date: 2006
Published: 2006
Rights Statement:
Restrictions on use:
Duration: 00:48:18
+ Show more...
Directors: Monika KupperDan Walker
Producers: Monik. Kupper; Dan Walker
Narrator: Michael Praed
Contributors: Mar Brayshay; Joh Grattan; Eleano Highwood; Sigurgeir Jónsso; Stephen Self; Tho Thordarson; G. Woo
Publisher: BBC Open University
Link to related site: BBC Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/timewatch/index.shtml
OU Website: http://www.open2.net/timewatch/index.html
Subject terms: Lava flows--Iceland--History--18th century; Laki (Iceland) --Eruption, 1783-1784
Production number: LSGB622A
Videofinder number: 7382
Available to public: no