At our school, corporal punishment was a visible and accepted part of everyday life. It existed within the wider...
Among boys at traditional schools where corporal punishment was commonplace, receiving the cane often carried a curious social status....
One incident from my school days that has always stayed with me involved a punishment I received from the...
Looking back on my school days, I can still remember one particular incident that seemed to surprise an adult...
As the end of term approached and the excitement of the upcoming holidays filled the air, my friends and...
Among my many memories of junior school, one incident stands out as particularly unusual. It involved a boy being...
One memory from my junior school days in the 1960s has stayed with me more vividly than most. In...
The late 1960s was a period of profound social change, and it must have been a particularly confusing time...
Corporal punishment was a normal part of school life during my school years, and like most boys of my...
Until recently, I had never really stopped to consider where the teachers at my primary school obtained the slippers...
For many boys who attended British schools during the mid-to-late 1970s, the physical education department was where they were...
In many British schools during the twentieth century, the slipper occupied a unique place among disciplinary measures. Unlike the...