During the 1960s, the authority exercised by prefects over pupils’ conduct beyond the school grounds, together with the severe...
As early as the 1870s, corporal punishment had its detractors. The Government sought to restrict its use within the...
I encountered boys from many schools during those years; however, among those within my regular acquaintance, only the boys...
Father Christopher Nulty, S.J., who later served as Rector, was remembered as a serious and austere figure. He believed...
The 1980s marked the beginning of a markedly different approach to school discipline. In 1986, Peter Hawkins and Malcolm...
Kostka Hall, Brighton, Victoria, served for many years as the preparatory school to Xavier College. Accounts of school life...
There was a time when opening a British children’s comic meant entering a wonderfully chaotic world of runaway prams,...
During a discussion of historical school disciplinary records, attention was drawn to an earlier observation that, in addition to...
Interest in historical records concerning corporal punishment in schools has grown considerably in recent years. In earlier decades many...
Debate has long persisted regarding whether state schools in England were legally obliged to maintain records of corporal punishment....
To understand how corporal punishment has been regulated in different places and at different periods, it is first necessary...
It is difficult to believe that every instance of corporal punishment was formally entered into an official record, at...