There was a time when corporal punishment occupied a very different place in everyday life. To modern eyes, it...
By the end of the autumn term, Highdon felt very different to the frightened place Andrew Collins had first...
By the beginning of November, a cold mist settled over the Sussex countryside each morning, wrapping Highdon School in...
The last week of October brought with it crisp mornings, drifting leaves and the unmistakable feeling that winter was...
Monday morning arrived beneath low grey clouds that drifted across the Sussex hills. The great bell rang promptly at...
By Sunday afternoon, the discovery beneath the old cedar tree had become the greatest secret in Ash House. David,...
It was the autumn term of 1952 when St Anne’s County Grammar School once again opened its imposing black...
There was a time in small-town America when the school bell did more than mark the beginning and end...
The systems of school discipline that existed in Scotland and England during the mid-twentieth century reflected two distinctly different...
Throughout much of the twentieth century, the Scottish tawse, commonly referred to as the belt or the strap, formed...
Looking back on my school years, I have always considered myself to have been a reasonably well-behaved child who...
For generations, corporal punishment was regarded as a normal part of school discipline throughout Scotland. While methods varied across...