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The longest strike in history was not staged by miners but by minors – the children of a small village in Norfolk.

On 1 April, 1914 pupils of the Burston village school, supported by their parents, took to the streets in protest at the dismissal of their teachers, Tom and Annie Higdon. The strike lasted for over 25 years.

The Strike School was built in resistance to the victimisation faced by the Higdons for wanting to improve the living conditions of the agricultural labourers and for believing that a decent education was the right of all.

Welcome to the site of the Burston School Strike and its legacy.

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Burston Strike School
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