Has anyone any experience of this once popular but underestimated punishment ? From my experience the sting to the...
All schools have a school secretary, usually female, and sometimes rather attractive. At my school which happened to be...
(Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1998) Then and Now: 1648 We start with perhaps one of the more well known...
The Historian’s Guide, London (1701) 1685. May 9. This day Titus Oates, (who under pretence of a Popish Plot, had...
The Times, London, 19 October 1795 In the course of the late Stafford Assizes, a cause was tried, in...
The Times, London, 17 October 1801 An insurrection manifested itself, last week, in the very heart of the...
Inverness Journal, 14 March 1817 Last Friday, a woman of the name of Grant, was flogged through the...
To the Editor of the Inverness Journal. MR EDITOR. — I was in hopes, that, amidst the discussions which...
House of Commons, Tuesday, June 10. Whipping of women. General THORNTON moved for leave to bring in a bill...
Broadside printed by John Muir, Glasgow, September 1822 An Account of the Public Flogging Of EDWARD HAND through the...