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
Cast
- 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