The Burston School Strike, by Casey 61938 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/6/1/9/3/61938 ] [Files: 61938-0.txt; 61938-h.htm]
For those wishing to know: in April 1914, in the small Norfolk village of Burston, the local vicar, the Rev. Charles Tucker Eland, disliking the Methodist meeting setup by the husband of the local school teacher, dismissed him and his wife (both popular teachers) from their posts. The villages greatly objected because they were excellent school teachers and were very active in helping the villagers stand up for their rights against the then-establishment (squire and rector as it was known). The children of the school went on strike, refusing to go to school unless their beloved teachers were reinstated. Instead their dismissed teachers taught them first on the village green, and later in people's houses, the villages supporting the teachers with food etc. The strike lasted 25 years and is the longest strike in English history. This pamphlet gives the details of the strike, written in the early days, and was written to raise fundds to support the teachers.
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