When we look at today’s celebrities—whether they’re world-famous athletes, actors, or musicians—it’s easy to forget that, once upon a...
Talking of today’s celebrities, whether in sports or entertainment, as youngsters they were no different to the rest of...
Rachel Johnson describes her schooldays at Ashdown House in her autobiography. It was an all boys school but her...
Roger Daltrey from The Who recently wrote in his book that, at age 15, he received six strokes of...
Estelle Skornik, the well-known young French actress from the Renault Clio TV commercials in the UK, once shared in...
Doug Scott was one of the world’s leading high-altitude and big-wall climbers of his time, and the first Englishman...
The subject of corporal punishment in the home and at school remains a complex and often contentious one, particularly...
In her autobiography “Unzipped”, Susie Quatro mentions on page 6 that she was spanked with a wooden spoon by...
(short pause) School was no escape from discipline. The corridors echoed with the clatter of muddy boots and the...
(gap: 2s) A couple more footballers caned at school; the Fashanu brothers, Justin and John. Both caned in 1977,...
A few more footballers caned at school:-John Barnes caned at a strict Jesuits school in Jamaica, and Dwight Yorke...
gap: 2s) Childhood in the late 1960s and early 70s, especially in places like Preston, Lancashire, was a tapestry...
(gap: 2s) I heard Russell Crowe—‘The Gladiator’ himself—on the E! Channel, reminiscing about being “whacked on the arse by...
For the sake of this project I’ve simply used the current statistical Regions of England created in 1994 and last modified...
Every individual must begin somewhere, and so I shall commence. This reflection is prompted by recent discussions concerning Miss...
(gap: 2s) In my formative years at primary school, the teaching staff were almost exclusively women, with the exception...
During my formative years at a boys’ grammar school, I, along with several of my school friends, became acquainted—through...
In my personal opinion, nothing of a corporal punishment nature actually occurred. My belief is based on my knowledge...
(gap: 1s) My earliest school days unfolded in a world that now feels impossibly distant—an era of pebble-dashed council...
(gap: 2s) Looking back at the landscape of discipline in English schools, especially during the post-war decades, it’s striking...
(gap: 1s) My memories of childhood are stitched together with the sights and sounds of our little estate in...
(gap: 2s) Over the past year, as the world has shifted and reshaped itself during the Covid “reduction”—which, as...
(gap: 2s) The story I’m about to share takes us back to the heart of 1970s Huddersfield, to the...
(gap: 2s) It is true that one of the lady’s many talents is that of Animatrice—a word that, in...