On 1 April 1914 the children in the rural village of Burston, Norfolk, went out ‘on strike’ in support of their teachers, Tom and Annie Higdon, who had been victimised out of their employment by the school managers for Tom’s political work in the parish. What the local Rector said would be a ‘nine days wonder’ and all ‘moonshine’, grew into a strike and community boycott of the local council school that went on to last the next 25 years.