During the 1960s and 1970s, many childhood games reflected the customs and discipline commonly found in family life and...
In retrospect, it is perhaps unsurprising that children of earlier generations often imitated the customs and discipline of the...
The recollections shared by several individuals suggest that childhood disciplinary games, once regarded as harmless amusements, often left a...
In recalling the curious private amusements of an earlier period of adult life, one woman has described a game...
The recollections of childhood games and informal punishments described above reflect a curious aspect of post-war British childhood, when...
During a discussion of historical school disciplinary records, attention was drawn to an earlier observation that, in addition to...
Interest in historical records concerning corporal punishment in schools has grown considerably in recent years. In earlier decades many...
Debate has long persisted regarding whether state schools in England were legally obliged to maintain records of corporal punishment....
To understand how corporal punishment has been regulated in different places and at different periods, it is first necessary...
It is difficult to believe that every instance of corporal punishment was formally entered into an official record, at...
The following correspondence raises an interesting question concerning the purpose and use of punishment record books in schools. From...
Throughout history, societies have linked spirituality, morality, discipline, and the body in complex ways. Practices associated with witchcraft, pagan...
The correspondent assures readers that he has never personally experienced corporal punishment while wearing a skirt, let alone one...
John Smith, aged 60, was told by a court that he had placed his wife, Kim, across his knee...
He was a contemporary of, though a few years junior to, Ken Clarke at Nottingham High School, having arrived...
In a measure that has provoked considerable public discussion, the French Parliament is expected to approve legislation on Tuesday...
In a discussion on juvenile vandalism, several members of Newark Town Council called for the restoration of corporal punishment...
The phenomenal commercial success of Fifty Shades of Grey and its sequels must surely provide considerable satisfaction to its...
In a recent column, Rachel Johnson, sister of Boris Johnson, reflected upon the subject of corporal punishment and her...
The case under discussion concerned not a former headmaster who physically chastised his wife with his hand, but one...
Regarding the school itself, relatively little information is available. It appears to have begun as a state secondary modern...
The televised caning of Cathy in Grange Hill appears reasonably authentic in its depiction. Mrs McClusky seemed to feel...
Debate concerning disciplinary practices in Scottish state schools during the mid-twentieth century has often centred upon several distinctive features...
The debate surrounding disciplinary practices in British schools has, in recent years, prompted renewed examination of methods once regarded...
Recent examination of disciplinary practices in British schools during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s has drawn renewed attention to...
As I mentioned previously, their private convent school employed no corporal punishment during the 1960s. Around 1968, her younger...
During the 1950s and 1960s, attitudes toward corporal punishment in British schools and homes varied considerably according to region,...
What emerges from these recollections is less a picture of formally regulated SCP than of highly individualised classroom cultures,...
During the late 1950s and early 1960s, the term “lower school” at my grammar school referred to the first...
In a number of recollections concerning school discipline, it appears that many female pupils were subjected to corporal punishment,...
There remains some uncertainty as to whether corporal punishment administered to girls upon the buttocks constituted standard practice at...
The late 1940s and early 1950s now seem like a different moral universe. Modern Britain tends to interpret childhood...
Ann, born in 1947, received the strap across an unspecified part of the body from a female teacher between...
Accounts from Greenfield Primary School in Oldham, previously circulated though now difficult to trace to their original publication, appear...
Birley High School (Secondary), Manchester. Clarksfield School (Secondary), Oldham. Counthill School (Secondary), Oldham. Evidently, the strap was commonly used...
Accounts of school discipline from the 1950s through the 1980s reveal a striking variety in both methods and attitudes...
Alexandra Park Primary School – Stockport Penny, born in 1948, was caned across an unspecified part of the body...
The cricketing exploits of Ms Janet Dines and the formidable discipline imposed by female teachers on unruly schoolboys are...
(short pause) Turning to the subject of Janet Dines and John Lindsay Guise, I find myself in agreement with...
I wonder, could these latter two be the same Pauline? The dates certainly align, and it’s not uncommon for...