One individual described his first experience of being caned as an adult. He was required to bend over a...
When I returned to the dormitory grinning, I was treated as something of a hero, especially since I had...
School canes have varied considerably between institutions and across different periods. An 8 mm diameter cane seems rather thin...
The slipper (the right slipper!) can be an extremely effective instrument for striking the buttocks. Its effect is quite...
I have come across several accounts from adults who, despite never having experienced corporal punishment at school themselves, later...
One big factor for me that hasn’t been mentioned is the chance of my mother finding out I’d been...
I cannot recall any status attaching to receiving CP at either my Junior School or my Secondary School, with...
Detention involved having to write an essay on a set topic. I just loved writing essays when I was...
Although I wouldn’t have known it at the time, if I’d been caned I might now be able to...
When I was at school, the answer would definitely have been detention, although toward the end of my school...
There are few pleasures more agreeable to the devoted cricket enthusiast than leafing through the yellowing pages of an...
There are certain implements which, by their very nature, seem wholly unsuited to the administration of corporal punishment. The...
In the hard-edged classrooms and draughty gymnasiums of post-war Scotland, discipline was regarded not merely as part of education,...
There are certain sounds that never truly leave a generation. The squeak of plimsolls across polished wooden floors. The...
In those days, school discipline carried with it a sense of theatre as much as punishment. Every master seemed...
The curious and troubling saga of Wildman belongs unmistakably to that peculiar post-war British landscape in which morality, discipline,...
In retrospect, one of the more curious episodes connected with the school’s turbulent final years was the affair involving...
In the years when Britain still argued fiercely over the virtues of discipline, authority, and the moral fibre of...
In the curious byways of post-war London there emerged, from time to time, figures whose obsessions propelled them briefly...
In the curious underworld of post-war British eccentricity, few figures were more puzzling — or more unsettling — than...
In later years, many former pupils would compare notes about school discipline with the peculiar fascination reserved for vanished...
The next summons to the Headmaster’s study came several weeks later, though the sense of inevitability surrounding it made...
There was always a curious science to the school cane — a grim arithmetic known intimately by generations of...
In the decades when school discipline was regarded as an essential pillar of education, the administration of corporal punishment...