For a very long time, corporal punishment survived partly because it was woven into everyday life. Children could be...
By the 1970s, school corporal punishment had entered a strange period in its history. It was still very much...
By the early 1980s, corporal punishment in British schools belonged to two worlds at once. It belonged to the...
There must have been a final caning in every school that once used the cane. A final slippering. A...
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...
As more memories surfaced, one thing became increasingly clear. There was never a universal approach to corporal punishment in...
As memories from former pupils accumulated, the discussion gradually shifted away from simply recalling punishments. A far more thought-provoking...
One of the clearest themes to emerge from these recollections was that schools differed not only in who received...