Recorder and undisciplined youth
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Youths ordered prison and the birch
The Times, London, 17 June 1932, p.11 News in Brief Before the Recorder (Sir Ernest Wild, K.C.) at the...
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Birch and prison for three men
The Glasgow Herald, 19 February 1938, p.12 Found guilty of robbery with violence Three men found guilty at the...
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Corporal Punishment In The Navy.
The Times, London, 13 June 1904 To The Editor Of The Times. Sir, — Certain doubtless well-intentioned but mischievous...
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Learnt His Mother Was In Mental Home
Western Morning News, Plymouth, 7 November 1936 Boy disillusioned From our own correspondent Portland, Friday. When two boys appeared...
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Bad Boys Birched
Weekly Dispatch, London, 5 August 1917 Two Lads Scared by Result of Their Misdoings. Charged with stealing a lady’s...
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Grenadier Guards Scandal
The New York Times, 12 February 1903 Circumstances That Led to the Expose of the Methods of Punishment of...
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Woman magistrate who had boys birched starts row: ‘It’s back to barbarism,’ says colleague
Daily Mirror, London, 11 July 1947, p.1 A WOMAN magistrate who yesterday ordered birching for two boys — one...
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Wide Reform of Penal Code
The Times, London, 5 November 1947 Sentences less punitive Whipping to stop From Our Parliamentary Correspondent (extracts) In the...