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Gareth Calway

Latest articles from Gareth Calway

'Bread or Blood': The soaring price of grain was a key ingredient in the 1816 riots across East Anglia.

‘Bread or Blood’: Fenland Riots, 200 years on
In the early summer of 1816, postwar England was alarmed by news of a revolt.

'Bread or Blood': The soaring price of grain was a key ingredient in the 1816 riots across East Anglia.

‘Bread or Blood’: Fenland Riots, 200 years on
In the early summer of 1816, postwar England was alarmed by news of a revolt.

'Bread or Blood': The soaring price of grain was a key ingredient in the 1816 riots across East Anglia.

‘Bread or Blood’: Fenland Riots, 200 years on
In the early summer of 1816, postwar England was alarmed by news of a revolt.

'Bread or Blood': The soaring price of grain was a key ingredient in the 1816 riots across East Anglia.

‘Bread or Blood’ Fenland Riots, 200 years on
Gareth Calway looks back at the 'Bread of Blood' Riots of 1816 in Littleport and Ely, their bloody aftermath - and how the people are Fenland are marking the 200th anniversary on Sunday May 22.