Film
Bread or Blood
1981
- Director
- Peter Smith
- Year
- 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
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
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
James Greene
Sir Edward Alderson
Niall Padden
Wheeler
Directed by
Peter Smith
Written by
Peter Ransley