Kostka Hall, Brighton, Victoria, served for many years as the preparatory school to Xavier College. Accounts of school life...
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...