Shaun Jeffery

Born in the small market town of Beccles, a quaint place nestled on the southern bank of the River Waveney, Shaun Jeffery, would spend his formative years exploring the surrounding countryside.

His most successful book to date: ‘The Village in Revolt: The Story of the Longest Strike in History', is the definite history of the Burston School Strike, or Burston Rebellion as it is also commonly referred to. As Martin Empson, author of ‘Kill all the Gentlemen’ and Land and Labour: Marxism, Ecology and Human History says: “This book celebrates the role of Tom and Annie, as well as the brave school students who went on strike, and their families who stood by and encouraged them in the face of the courts and the farmers. Their sacrifices should not be forgotten as they illuminate rural life in the early 20th century, and I highly recommend this excellent history which will both educate and inspire the reader.”

Further praise for The Village in Revolt includes:

“Its synthesis of in-depth secondary research and lived experience make it a compelling account and point of reference… The Strike School operated until 1939 and the last years of the Higdons are movingly recorded in what is a model of socialist history in content, style, research and reference. There are shades of EP Thompson here.” Paul Simon, Morning Star

“To some the story of the Burston Strike School will be familiar….To others it will be a discovery. To both groups I say read this book. It will tell you more about Burston, the strike, and above all those who led it, nurtured it and kept the vison alive both in Norfolk and elsewhere.” Professor Alun Howkins, Emeritus in Social History, University of Sussex

His second book to be published (currently out-of-print) was “Out of Station: The Travels of Belonging”; a three act travelogue, written in journalistic prose, that explicitly charts the author’s experiences of living in Goa, and his budding relationship with a NRI woman studying medicine in the neighbouring state of Karnataka.

To be published in early 2023, 'Operation: Firpo Intruder', is set in 1940’s Bengal and charts the extraordinary real life war time survival story of the crew members of a Wellington bomber that crashed landed into the Bay of Bengal during the monsoon of 1942.

He currently splits his life between the UK and India.