Bread or Blood

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Peter Smith

Status Released

Release Date 1981-04-05

Storyline

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