ABSTRACT
Bread was the chief food of industrializing Britain. It sustained a population that increased threefold between 1770 and 1870. Bread was the fuel that powered the muscle and sinew of labour in ‘the workshop of the world’.
Bread was the chief food of industrializing Britain. It sustained a population that increased threefold between 1770 and 1870. Bread was the fuel that powered the muscle and sinew of labour in ‘the workshop of the world’.