1972

UK HEADLINES

INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES

Publications

The Bustard - Issue 1

UK HEADLINES

Bloody Sunday (British soldiers killing 14 unarmed protestors during a civil rights march on 30 January 1972) - Staines Air Disaster (A BEA Trident crashed near Heathrow on 18 June, killing all 118 aboard) - First Official Gay Pride Rally in London (roughly 700 participants marched from Hyde Park to Trafalgar Square marking the first event of it's kind in the UK) - Miners’ Strike (National strike led by Arthur Scargill - then little known - which led to a national state of emergency).

INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES

Nixon’s China Visit (President Nixon’s eight-day trip to Communist China and meeting Mao Zedong in February) - Munich Massacre (At the Munich 1972 Olympics, Black September terrorists killed eleven Israeli athletes in an event televised around the world) - Iran Blizzard (Devastating February 1972 blizzard in Iran, which killed over 4,000 people, the worst Blizzard in history) - Moscow Summit & SALT I (Landmark summit between Nixon and Brezhnev in May, leading to the first-ever Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty agreement)

Publications

The Bustard - Issue 1

This magazine was published by Bar Hill Community Primary School as a compilation of school reports and children's work. It begins with an introductory note from the then-headteacher, W.H.S. Norton.

It includes work from Graham Carter, Jonathan Pitman, Andrew Norton, Ian White, Philippa Oakley-Smith, Joanna de Waal, Julia Hook, Amanda Stains, Christopher Daysh, Wendy Mitson, Sarah Burns, Andrew Butterworth, Sarah Kenchington, Alisdair McIlhaggar, Colin Harris, Helen Bramwell, Stephen Reeds, Joanne Purvey, Andrew Perry, Laura Smith, Joanna Wrightson, Richard Miller, Amanda Hackett, Katherine de Waal, Kathryn Harbottle, Ruth White, Patrick Gearson, Paula Burns, Jeannie Krinsley,

Only a minimal number of these survive, and it's not clear how many were ever published!. This issue is available on the Internet Archive here.

If you have any further issues, please let us know (we want to scan them; you can have them back afterwards).

The Bustard - Autumn

Another (the second?) issue of The Bustard from Bar Hill Community Primary School in 1972. This is a compilation of children's work and teachers' reports.

Features work from Julian Chapman, Jonathan Partis, Adrienne Willows, Amanda Collins, Joanna de Waal, Robyn Anwyl, Paul Lakin, Jessica Bishop, Sarah Pook, Joanna Wrightson, Simon Ancliffe, Clancy Briggs, Kevin Levitt, Beverly Donald, Julie Daysh, Henry Dale, Christopher Daysh, Adrian Keating, David Heard, Debbie Cooper, Colin Harris, Gary Couzens, Ginny Edwards, Malcolm McIlhaggar, Mark London, Ghazaia Sharieff, and Christopher Fromant.

The headteacher's report, by W.H.S. Norton, is at the end.

This is available on the Internet Archive here.