Grenadier Guards Scandal

The New York Times, 12 February 1903 Circumstances That Led to the Expose of the Methods of Punishment of Subalterns — Lord Roberts’s Indignation. Circumstances which led to the exposure of methods of punishment of subalterns in the Guards regiments, I am told, had their beginning one night when two subalterns of the Grenadier Guards […]

Art of caning.

Daily Mail, London, 9 August 1902, p.3 How a magistrate would deal with refractory boys. Mr. Webb thrashed your boy for misbehaviour, and ten minutes afterwards he ran out of school and climbed over the wall. I shall not have him here again until his father has thrashed him, and if he will bring him […]

London School Board

The Times, London, 8 November 1901 The weekly meeting of the members of the School Board for London was held yesterday at the Board-room, Victoria-embankment, Mr. LYULPH STANLEY, the vice-chairman, presiding. […] Corporal Punishment. Miss HONNOR MORTEN moved: — “That corporal punishment be abolished in infants’ schools.” She said there was a great deal of […]

Corporal Punishment in Gaol.

The Times, London, 4 January 1901 A report to the Birmingham justices presented by the Visiting Committee stated that there had been 36 serious assaults on prison officers and prisoners at Winson-green Gaol during the year. In some cases the assaults on officers had been found to warrant corporal punishment, but as the interval between […]

EXPERIENCE OF THE TAWSE

hand or bottom which is worse it’s often felt by some that punishment on the hand is a lesser option and somehow less painful than on the bottom I’m not so sure up to a time just before my 11th birthday attended a junior school in an urban district which was under the control of […]

ANNA’S SLIPPERING

Transcript bring Melissa’s class was doing in their gym in the middle of the lesson she and the other girls heard someone coming in from the changing room it was mrs. Townsend and she went over to the gym mistress and spoke quietly to her the exercises stopped for a moment and then resumed all […]

The law and the cane

Daily Mail, London, 13 December 1900 For caning a boy at Garrett-lane Board School, Wandsworth, E. Vincent, an assistant master, was summoned yesterday at the South-Western Police-court. The boy, Richard Butler, said he was thrown over a form and caned. “The master told you to hold out your hand: and you refused, eh? asked the […]

National Union of Teachers

The Times, London, 13 April 1900 The annual report of the Executive Committee of the National Union of Teachers, which will be presented to the conference at York on Monday next states that during the past year steady progress has been made in the matter of education throughout the country, and that in this important […]