EPISODE · Nov 25, 2011 · 36 MIN
'A low artful wicked man': poverty riots and bread, the response of government to the crises of the 1790s
from The National Archives Podcast Series · host Paul Carter and Julie Halls
A look at how the government of the 1790s attempted to address both food shortages and the riots that broke out as real want and scarcity took hold in many districts.
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