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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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