The school was Kostka Hall, Brighton, Victoria, which is a preparatory school to Xavier College, Kew. The quotes are...
If there is one conclusion that emerges from the recollections of former pupils, it is that there never was...
Looking back upon the period from the comfortable distance of a decade or more, many former pupils came to...
If there was one episode that seemed to capture the changing mood of the mid-1960s, it was not the...
By the beginning of the 1960s something curious was happening in English schools. The regulations remained much the same,...
There was a time when one could mention the name of almost any English grammar school and, before long,...
By the early 1970s, corporal punishment remained common in many British schools, but its authority was no longer unquestioned....
The headmaster’s study occupied a special place in school mythology. Its furnishings were ordinarily respectable and dull: a broad...
The cane was only one article in a surprisingly varied armoury of school discipline. In junior schools and gymnasiums,...
In Scotland, the chief instrument was not usually the cane but the tawse, widely known among pupils as the...
There are certain phrases which belong unmistakably to the British schoolroom of an earlier age: Report to the Headmaster,...
For much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, corporal punishment was an accepted method of maintaining discipline in schools...