Bread or Blood

Release Date: 1981-04-05

Overview: Between April and May 1816, "Bread or Blood" riots erupted across East Anglia as the price of bread surpassed the wages of agricultural and industrial laborers. While food riots had a long history in Britain, industrialization, enclosure, and globalization increasingly safeguarded the nation's food supply by the early nineteenth century

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Cast

Malcolm Storry

as Isaac Bawcombe

Carolyn Pickles

as Mary Bawcombe

Ian Redford

as Ben Jarvis

Sandra Voe

as Mrs Bawcombe

Milton Johns

as Harbutt