Bread or Blood

· 1981

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

Starring

Malcolm Storry, Peter Ransley, Peter Smith, Carolyn Pickles, Ian Redford, Sandra Voe, Milton Johns

Director

Peter Smith