Movie

Bread or Blood (1981)

• April 5, 1981

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

Director

Peter Smith

Writers

Peter Ransley

Starring

Malcolm Storry, Carolyn Pickles, Ian Redford