Daily Mirror, London, 29 August 1947 Spanking Story By Ronald Bedford Press cutting — CLICK TO ENLARGE — Image will open in a new windowHERE’s some hot news for the five million boys and girls who are going back to school in England and Wales for the autumn term. Britain has cut the imports of […]
My Cane Stays
Evening News, London, 13 June 1947 Says This Headmaster Appealing to them to support him if he has to punish their children, Mr. H. Bates, headmaster of Montem School, Slough, told members of the Parents’ Association that although he detested corporal punishment, there were some children who understood only one thing — pain. Referring to […]
Teacher: I loathe the cane
Evening News, London, 27 May 1947 Head talks of boys who are “wreckers” COMPLAINT that “the dignity that should attach to the headmaster is rapidly being ground out by the indignities put upon him by things that have nothing to do with teaching” was made at the conference of the National Association of Head Teachers […]
His business is simply whacking!
Daily Mirror, London, 26 April 1947 Eric A. Wildman, 26, ex-Merchant Navy, would probably be Public Enemy No. 1 if schoolboys had any say in the matter. For Eric is a firm believer in corporal punishment — it’s his business. To more than 100 schools he supplies canes and birches and — oh! — everything […]
Had Wingate the right to flog?
Daily Mail, London, 6 July 1946 Court-martial sets great jungle-war problem By Murray Edwards Daily Mail Reporter The right of General Wingate of Burma to order any of his Chindits to be flogged, shot, or turned loose in the jungle for an offence that would endanger comrades’ lives, was discussed in a third-floor back attic […]
Punishment of boy: Action against headmaster fails
The Times, London, 19 October 1945 High Court of Justice: King’s Bench Division Feldman v. Evans; before Mr. Justice Wrottesley The plaintiffs’ case was that on March 10, 1944, Mr. Evans beat the boy by striking him on the leg with a stick or other instrument, drawing blood.HIS LORDSHIP gave judgment for the defendant in […]
Girl in Slacks Caned
Daily Mirror, London, 18 October 1939, p.5 The mother describes the punishment in a letter she has written to the Richmond Women Conservatives, who, at a recent meeting, condemned and described the wearing of slacks by women as “disgusting.”BECAUSE her daughter, aged nineteen, wore slacks, a Liverpool mother, assisted by the girl’s two sisters, held […]