Bread or Blood

(1981)

Year: 1981

Director: Peter Smith

Cast: Malcolm Storry, Кэролин Пиклз, Ian Redford, Sandra Voe, Милтон Джонс, Sean Baker, George Malpas, David Calder, Philip Joseph, Bryan Murray

Plot

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