The curious and troubling saga of Wildman belongs unmistakably to that peculiar post-war British landscape in which morality, discipline,...
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...
At St Thomas More in Stoke, one former pupil recalled Mrs Devlin as an intimidating figure, remarking that her...
At St Helens Comprehensive School in Barnsley, one former pupil remembered Mrs Amos as a vigilant teacher who frequently...
The orderly march to Brighton was eventually replaced by journeys to the North Brighton Drill Hall at a time...
The recollections of former pupils suggest that McCristal administered discipline with firmness, though not with caprice. One former boarder...
gap: 2s) Childhood in the late 1960s and early 70s, especially in places like Preston, Lancashire, was a tapestry...
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...
(gap: 2s) In recent discussions, the topic of martinets—those infamous multi-tailed implements of discipline—seems to be enjoying a resurgence....
Bounty Street (Secondary) – Milton Keynes. Diane – b1940 – Slipper across unspecified anatomy by male teacher – 1951...
Once upon a time, in a cheerful little village nestled among the rolling green hills, my mother, my younger...
(gap: 2s) Once upon a time, nestled in a quiet row of pebble-dashed houses on a sun-dappled Hertfordshire estate,...
I grew up in Motherwell, central Scotland, in an era (60s/70s) where the belt was still used in schools...