Film

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

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

Philip Joseph

Cooper

Bryan Murray

Pope

Sandra Kneller

Mrs Jarvis

Jon Croft

Baker

Barbara Bermel

Mrs Toomer

Edward Peel

Benett

Ann Way

Mrs Tucker

Edward Phillips

Tasker

• Peter SmithDirector
• Peter RansleyWriter

Release date

April 5, 1981

Status

Released

Original language

English