Bread or Blood

Name: Bread or Blood
Director: Peter Smith
Released: 1981-04-05
Cast: Malcolm Storry, Carolyn Pickles, Ian Redford, Sandra Voe, Milton Johns

1981

Director: Peter Smith

Writer: Peter Ransley

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