Some former pupils remember both issues being involved. Kay recalled that the demand for equal uniform rights became entangled...
Contemporary press reports generally emphasised the disciplinary question. Some referred initially to the cane. Others referred specifically to the...
The Facebook discussions are nevertheless valuable because they contain testimony from people who say they were actually present. Several...
There are, however, recollections suggesting that girls at Heaton received corporal punishment on other occasions. One woman who attended...
An interesting sidelight concerns Headmaster Harry Askew himself. Askew had previously been a notable athlete and represented Great Britain...
Perhaps the most important lesson to emerge from the research is the danger of imposing modern assumptions upon earlier...
Large numbers of memories may begin to reveal patterns. Official Records Would Transform the Research The ideal source would...
The original aim of the project was to examine approximately 1,000 British schools. That remains the objective. England contains...
No responsible researcher should pretend that an informal Facebook survey can provide exact national statistics. It cannot. There are...
For countless youngsters, the arrival of the weekly comic was an important event. The Beano, The Dandy, The Topper,...
Perhaps no punishment became more associated with British comics than the slipper. Dennis the Menace and Roger the Dodger...
The treatment of girl characters is especially interesting. Minnie the Minx was important because she was allowed to be...