One former pupil recalls entering a grammar school in north-west London in 1961. During his first year, a boy...
A particularly detailed recollection comes from a former pupil who entered a Midlands boys’ school in 1954 after gaining...
Disciplinary cases were considered at a prefects’ court held on Wednesday mornings. Names accumulated in the prefects’ book during...
More serious sentences were not carried out during the court itself. The school provided a right of appeal to...
Contemporary studies suggest that such arrangements were by no means confined to a single school. Graham Kalton’s The Public Schools and...
Supporters of the old arrangement maintained that its importance rested less upon punishment itself than upon the authority which...
Repton later became familiar to a much wider readership through the recollections of the writer Roald Dahl, who described...
Another question concerns whether different types of schools developed different disciplinary traditions. Some former pupils believe that public and...
School recollections are not concerned solely with punishment. One former pupil of Harrow County School, reading an account of...
Former pupils continue to debate the relative risks associated with the different forms of corporal punishment once employed in...
Perhaps the most interesting feature of the prefect system is not that it existed, but the manner in which...
To the modern reader, the notion of a seventeen or eighteen-year-old pupil sitting in judgment upon a younger schoolboy...