History GCSE
Food prices, shortages and popular protest
What Food prices, shortages and popular protest means in History GCSE, as defined for OCR.
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Taxation and the blockade pushed up prices and food shortages, prompting the 1795 and 1800 food riots and the 1816 Spa Fields unrest.
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