Bread or Blood

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Bread or Blood (1981)

Directed by Peter Smith

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 Isaac Bawcombe Carolyn Pickles Mary Bawcombe Ian Redford Ben Jarvis Sandra Voe Mrs Bawcombe Milton Johns Harbutt Sean Baker Toomer George Malpas Ellerby David Calder Benson
P
Philip Joseph Cooper Bryan Murray Pope
S
Sandra Kneller Mrs Jarvis
J
Jon Croft Baker

Crew

Director
Peter Smith
Writer
Peter Ransley

Details

Release date
1981-04-05
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English