Burston Archives - Burston Strike School

Archive Materials

As well as documents held by the museum, materials related to the Burston School Strike exist in archives managed by various institutions. As a legacy project the trustees are attempting to locate and produce a comprehensive listing of what is accessible. This is very much on going…

BRITISH LIBRARY

Title: Bodies without Abodes. [A tale.]

Author: Thomas George Higdon

Publication Details: [1912]

Identifier: System number 001679719

Physical Description: 16 p. ; 8º.

Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection 012637.bbb.3.(2.)

UIN: BLL01001679719

HANSARD (Search and download online)

Burston (Norfolk) Council School. Mr George Roberts Written Answers — May 11, 1914 of the teachers, Mr. and Mrs. Higdon; whether he has received an appeal, or appeals, for a public inquiry to be made into the facts of the case; and, if so, has he come to a decision on the matter?

Dismissal of Teachers (Burston, Norfolk). Mr William Anderson Commons — April 20, 1915 asked the President of the Board of Education whether he is aware that the dispute caused in Burston, Norfolk, by the dismissal of two village school teachers, Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Higdon, still

Provided School Managers (Norfolk). Mr William Thorne Commons — July 20, 1914 teachers, Mr. and Mrs. Higdon, from the Burston and Shimpling provided school as being uncalled for and unjust, and of the suspicion of church and political partisanship as being the real reasons underlying

AGRICULTURAL WAGES BOARDS. Commons — May 30, 1921

Holdenhurst, Christchurch, Hants. Mr. G. E. Hewitt, Waterloo Place, Horsham St. Faith, Norfolk. Mr. T. C. Higdon, Burston, Diss, Norfolk. Mr. Thomas Lovell, 20, Victoria Terrace, Alcombe, near Minehead

AGRICULTURAL WAGES BOARD. Written Answers — April 11, 1919

farm labourer. Mr. T. G. Higdon, Burston, Diss, Norfolk, school teacher, formerly agricultural labourer. Mr. W. Holmes, 15, Somerset Road, Tottenham, London, N. 17, trade, union official. Mr. W. R. Smith

PRIVATE SCHOOL, BURSTON. Sir Basil Peto Commons — February 24, 1927 asked the President of the Board of Education whether the primary day school at Burston, Norfolk, known as the Burston Strike School, receives any financial support from the education grant or from

PRIVATE SCHOOL, BURSTON. Sir Basil Peto Commons — February 24, 1927 asked the President of the Board of Education whether he is aware that the curriculum of teaching at the Burston Strike School includes trades unionism and Socialism as school subjects, and that the

PRIVATE SCHOOL, BURSTON. Lord Eustace Percy Commons — February 24, 1927 With my hon. Friend’s permission, I will answer these questions together. The so-called “strike” school at Burston receives no aid from public funds. I understand that it has been provided and

LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY

The Burston School strike : balance sheet (for 15 months ending August 31st, 1920) and covering letter signed by Annie K. Higdon and T.G. Higdon.

A Trades Union Congress file [document reference: MSS.292C/11.1/1/2] includes two letters from Frederick Roberts of the Burston School Strike and Evicted Glebe Tenants’ Committee, 23 August 1916, enclosing a two page typescript ‘appeal to all trade unions’, Aug 1916, a four page illustrated leaflet with the title ‘Burston School Strike and Evicted Glebe Tenants’, and a one page leaflet with the title ‘Prussianism in Norfolk’.

NORFOLK RECORD OFFICE

This pdf covers the main records held by the Norfolk Record Office (NR0) relating to the Burston School Strike. Details of some records held elsewhere, like the Norfolk Heritage Centre are also cited. Click to download PDF

TOM MANN ARCHIVE (MODERN RECORDS CENTRE)

Photograph – I have attached a scan of the relevant page from Tom Mann’s album [document reference: MSS.334/12/3] – we can do a limited number of copies for no charge. The photograph doesn’t feature Mann himself.