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Essential account of longest strike in Britain’s history
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The Burston School Strike 1914-1939 (Sertuc, £2)
THE LONGEST strike in British history began on April 1 1914 when most of the pupils walked out of the Burston school in Norfolk to support their teacher Kitty Higdon.
A Christian socialist, she believed that all children were entitled to the best possible education regardless of their position in the British class system and this inevitably led her into conflict with the school management board of the village parson and local farmers and landowners who believed that child labour in the fields should take priority over their education.
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