Shoreditch Observer and Hackney Express, London, 19 September 1908 North London. . Click to enlarge Two Stoke Newington boys — Edward Arthur Gault, 14, and John James Larkin, 13 — were charged on Tuesday with breaking into the Wordsworth-road Baptist Chapel, Stoke Newington, and stealing a cornet, trombone, and some wearing apparel, the property of […]
Author Archives: Nina Blyton
An Eton Mystery
The Marlborough Express, New Zealand, 26 November 1907, p.6 . Etonians all over the world will learn with surprise that the famous block on which many of them have been swished has been stolen, seriously or in joke from the headmaster’s room. No trace of it has been found. It dates back to 1770, and […]
Use of the School Cane.
Daily Mail, London, 4 November 1907, p.6 A Principal Exonerated. The adjourned summons against Mr. William Gannon, M.A., principal of the Woolwich Polytechnic, charging him with having excessively caned two of his pupils was dismissed at Woolwich Police Court. Giving evidence, Mr. Gannon said this was only the second case during the three and a […]
Schoolboy’s cigarette
Daily Mail, London, 24 April 1908, p.3 Headmaster’s offer of caning or dismissal. Under a covering letter headed “Insubordination, not Cigarette,” Mr. E.N. Marshall, headmaster of Queen Mary’s Grammar School, Walsall, sends a statement to the “Daily Mail” concerning the recent incident at the school when a boy was offered the alternatives of being caned […]
Corporal Punishment
March 1907 Statement Issued by Mr. Paton. Click to enlarge We have received the following copy of a letter addressed by Mr. J.L. Paton, the High Master of the Manchester Grammar School, to the parents of the boys at the school: Dear sir or madam, — I have obtained the permission of the Governors to […]
Manchester Teachers and Corporal Punishment
The Manchester Guardian, 17 January 1907 To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian. Sir, — The paragraph on this subject which appears in your issue for Tuesday last is incorrect in one or two important particulars. In the first place, it is stated that “liberty used to be accorded to all teachers to punish as […]
Birching at Eton.
The Slough, Eton and Windsor Observer, 14 October 1905 One had hoped that birching — or, as it is called at Eton, “swishing” — had become, if not altogether unknown, but little used at Eton. In no other country are youths, some of whom are almost grown-up men, punished in the manner which still obtains […]
Naval Courts-Martial, 1904
The Times, London, 26 September 1905 Naval and Military Intelligence Returns of the number of Courts-martial held and summary punishments inflicted on seamen of the Royal Navy, &c., during the year 1904 have been issued as a Parliamentary paper [Cd. 2677]. These returns show that the number of Courts-martial which took place during the year […]
Ragging” in H.M.S. Kent
The Times, London, 19 May 1905, pp.6,7 House of Commons, Thursday, May 18. Navy Estimates. (extracts) The House went into Committee of Supply on the Navy Estimates, Mr. Jeffreys (Hants, N.), in the chair. […] “Ragging” in H.M.S. Kent. Mr. PRETYMAN (Suffolk, Woodbridge) — In September, 1903, it came to the knowledge of the Admiralty […]
Use of the cane
Daily Mail, London, 30 March 1905, p.3 New rules for punishment in school. Yesterday the Leeds Education Committee adopted new regulations for the infliction of corporal punishment in schools. These provide that corporal punishment shall only be resorted to in extreme cases, and not until other means of discipline have been tried. Corporal punishment shall […]