I had no real interest in spanking as a young man, although I was smacked as a toddler –...
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...
I(gap: 2s) Let us step back in time to the quiet, close-knit village of Hambleton, nestled in the heart...
(gap: 2s) In the quiet, close-knit village of Hambleton, Lancashire, during the gentle days of the late 1960s, life...
(gap: 2s) Once upon a time, in a row of neat little pebble-dashed houses in Preston, there lived a...
(gap: 2s) In 1941, I was a solitary boy at a day school for boys in Oxford. My world...
(gap: 2s) Our home was a patchwork of memories and modest comforts, nestled among rows of pebble-dashed council houses....
(gap: 2s) When I was a little girl, my very best friend was a kind and cheerful girl named...