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24Aug

Contemporary portrait

After hearing of the Higdon’s and the Burston Rebellion, London based artist Kanwal Dhaliwal was inspired to create the wonderful contemporary portrait that can be seen below. Currently working on a series of portraits of lesser known heroic personalities who dared to challenge the authority, ’The Strike School’ is part of Kanwal’s series “The valiant […]
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17Aug

‘Burston Rebellion’

Written by Violet Potter’s niece To be launched at this year’s rally, the most comprehensive account of the first 100 years since the start of the ‘Burston Rebellion’, has been written by Violet Potter’s niece, Anne M. May. The book is called ‘The School of Freedom’ and will be published by Norfolk local historian David […]
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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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