Bread or Blood
Bread or Blood
Release: 1981-04-05
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
Ian Redford
as Ben Jarvis
Sean Baker
as Toomer
George Malpas
as Ellerby
David Calder
as Benson
Edward Peel
as Benett
James Marcus
as Kimber
Carolyn Pickles
as Mary Bawcombe
Sandra Voe
as Mrs Bawcombe
Bryan Murray
as Pope
James Greene
as Sir Edward Alderson
Brian Coburn
as Big Joe