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Peter Smith

Bread or Blood

    RELEASE

    1981-04-05

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    LENGTH

    0 min

    Description

    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