Bread or Blood

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

Directed by Peter Smith

Top 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

B

Barbara Bermel

Mrs Toomer

Edward Peel

Benett

A

Ann Way

Mrs Tucker

E

Edward Phillips

Tasker

James Greene

Sir Edward Alderson

Niall Padden

Wheeler

James Marcus

Kimber

Brian Coburn

Big Joe

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