Bread or Blood
1981Between 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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Malcolm Storry
as Isaac Bawcombe
Carolyn Pickles
as Mary Bawcombe
Ian Redford
as Ben Jarvis
Sandra Voe
as Mrs Bawcombe
Milton Johns
as Harbutt
Sean Baker
as Toomer
George Malpas
as Ellerby
David Calder
as Benson
Philip Joseph
as Cooper
Bryan Murray
as Pope
Sandra Kneller
as Mrs Jarvis
Jon Croft
as Baker
Barbara Bermel
as Mrs Toomer
Edward Peel
as Benett
Ann Way
as Mrs Tucker
Edward Phillips
as Tasker
James Greene
as Sir Edward Alderson
Niall Padden
as Wheeler
James Marcus
as Kimber
Brian Coburn
as Big Joe