Looking back from today’s perspective, an obvious question arises. Why didn’t children simply say no? If a headmistress told...
By the mid-1980s, corporal punishment in British schools was living on borrowed time. Some schools had abandoned it years...
There was a time when corporal punishment occupied a very different place in everyday life. To modern eyes, it...
For generations of British schoolchildren, corporal punishment was not something hidden away behind the headmaster’s door. In many schools...
One of the difficulties in describing British school corporal punishment is that there was never one universal experience. Ask...
For a very long time, corporal punishment survived partly because it was woven into everyday life. Children could be...
By the early 1980s, corporal punishment in British schools belonged to two worlds at once. It belonged to the...
Perhaps the most interesting thing about corporal punishment is not simply that it happened. It is how differently people...
lfjozEdit Profile When corporal punishment disappeared from British classrooms, one question remained. What would replace it? For generations the...
Corporal punishment has now been absent from ordinary British school life for long enough that an entire generation has...
Looking back at the history of corporal punishment, perhaps the most striking thing is how completely the world changed....
For many people who attended British schools during the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and even into the early 1980s, corporal...