As former pupils reflected on their school days, one question surfaced again and again. Which punishment was actually the...
If there was one lesson that many former pupils agreed upon, it was that the severity of corporal punishment...
For many children who attended school in Britain during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, corporal punishment was simply part...
Back in 1985, I bought a complete run of The Beano from 1955 from a shop in London (yes,...
If school caning really caused widespread, lifelong trauma, why was it so often portrayed as harmless comedy in the...
It’s worth noting that this comic contains 32 pages featuring 24 separate stories. Of those 24 strips, three include...
For millions of British children growing up after the Second World War, comics were an essential part of childhood....
Eton has long been regarded as England’s most famous public school, and perhaps the most prestigious in the British...
For a moment, none of the boys moved. The elderly man standing among the snow-covered trees smiled kindly. His...
The Christmas holidays passed quickly. Peter enjoyed spending time with his family, but his thoughts often drifted back to...
December arrived with crisp mornings and sparkling frost. Highdon looked magical. The old brick buildings were dusted with white,...
Autumn slowly gave way to winter. The leaves drifted one by one from the great cedar tree, covering the...