Archive for the ‘institutional’ Category
Worse Things Happen…
During my absence I had several emails asking about my historical articles and was there a book. Now there is a good idea. The answer is not at the moment, but I have picked up a few titbits here and there. In this vein I had several requests for more about the caning WRNS during […]
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Tags: WRNS
Following on from yesterday’s story here is another true account of the caning of some wrens, this time from the early 1970s. Shortly after this time women were included within the Royal Navy proper and would have been, in theory at least, protected from such sanctions. This was sent in by one of our regular […]
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Tags: caning, navy, spanking, the cane, wrens, WRNS
Taking it like a man
Here’s one of those little forum finds you so love. I have no context whatsoever for this and apart from some small edits I publish it as is. I am not sure if this is UK-based or American experience, but my guess is that it is from the US. Elizabeth_2 wrote: Yes I got that, […]
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Tags: 1940s, 1950s, can't sit down, college, corporal punishment, paddle, spanking
Nun such thing
I saw the pictures above and remembered a girl I went to night school with. There was an article in the newspapers about the local convent school six form college and the fact that they still bought canes. The chief nun was quoted as saying something like: “We don’t really use corporal punishment anymore, we […]
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Tags: 1980s, caning, college, nuns, OTK, spanking
The Art of Girl Flogging
We knew the Victorians were keen on spanking on the birch, it went hand in hand with keeping young women in their place but just how far did they go? Here we have a true account of a woman offering a discipline service for unruly adult daughters. I came across this tale in the History […]
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Tags: 1800s, 19th century, adult daughters, birch, birching, corporal punishment, daughters, domestic discipline, mentor, mentoring, spanking, Victorian
Here is an intriguing subject that has been covered here many times before. But I recently received an email from a reader who while liking my short story the Special Section, said it was somewhat undermined by its far-fetched in-service punishment set-up. Usually I wouldn’t care so much as one hopes given the nature of […]
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Tags: 1940s, can't sit down, caning, college, Royal navy, spanking, the cane, women in service
A Voice in the Corner 