For many people, the schooldays of the 1980s bring back memories of blackboards, exercise books, PE kits, school dinners...
One former pupil remembers starting school in 1983 and discovering that corporal punishment was still very much a reality....
To understand just how much school discipline had changed by the 1980s, it helps to compare those years with...
Not all corporal punishment involved the cane. Depending upon the school, the age of the child and the offence...
One of the most striking memories comes from a girl who was eleven years old in 1985. By then,...
Corporal punishment of girls remains one of the more complicated parts of British school history. Practices differed enormously from...
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...
For many former pupils, the most powerful memory of school corporal punishment is not necessarily the physical pain. It...
One of the difficulties in describing British school corporal punishment is that there was never one universal experience. Ask...