School history: Church, field and crinoline
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School history: Church, field and crinoline
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Stibbard School Log Book 1863-1934 This literary treasure paints a revealing and at times stark picture of life in a small Norfolk school and its rural community. Entries graphically describe the daily rituals of the classroom (“some of the girls have finished their knitting and commenced their garments”), and the intrusion of domestic and farming responsibilities (“the attendance for the week has been very low, the bigger children being absent gathering acorns”). Absences are noted for gleaning, stone-picking, bad roads, crow-keeping and carrying men’s dinners to the harvest field. nbsp; nbsp;
Edited by Shirley Howell, with notes by Rachel Young
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One day the mistress remarks: “Only six children present - the rest having gone to see the races.” Outbreaks of whooping cough and scarlatina (scarlet fever) are recorded in the same matter-of-fact tone as pupil deaths.
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