Chronology spanning 60 years on a remarkable character who made headlines with his pro-CP campaigns and appears to have lived on the proceeds of supplying punishment canes to schools and institutions. With links to over 20 press items and several previously undiscovered pictures, and extracts from two of his publications. You can also view the links to 2017's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at News Chronology 2017) Infact, I originally saw it performed on TV not knowing there was a spanking in it. (Yes, I have a cultured side!) Interviewed performers referred to the fact their performance was celebrating the 150th. anniversary of "La Fille Mal Gardee". (I wonder what that translates to in English?) It is ironical, then, that the Aussie ballet didn't adhere more closely to the original performance of what presumably occurred in 1839. Whatever, I'm jolly glad they opted for the more modern interpretation! Perhaps it was just a good chance to get a spanking into their performance!

Within each year or group of years you choose the country you want to research, and the items are then classified by type of corporal punishment and by month. You can also view the links to 2014's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at News Chronology 2014) In any event I suspect you will not be satisfied until you have access to the original stage directions(therebeing mo dialog for the scene in question!).I didn't know such things were available ! Does one just write to the BBC or is there some sort of 'vault" you can visit? My query is about the police administering corporal punishment. Was this considered a normal, everyday part of a policeman's duties? Did he sign up to it, as it were, when he joined the force?This is gradually being developed into an overview of the CP situation, past and present, for each country. There are many external and internal links to detailed corporal punishment information, including legal, procedural or practical aspects, from official documents or from other reliable published reports. You can also view the links to 2001's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at News Chronology 2001)

You can also view the links to 1999's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at News Chronology 1999) Please let me know what type of experience you desire. I will dress accordingly for the role that you request. You can also view the links to 2018's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at News Chronology 2018) How it used to be in Approved Schools and other British youth institutions: regulations, theory and practice, with links to key documents.The Whip and the Rod: An Account of Corporal Punishment among all Nations and for all Purposes, by R.G. Van Yelyr (illustrated) You can also view the links to 2005's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at News Chronology 2005) You can also view the links to 2012's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at News Chronology 2012) COUNTRY FILES, including rules, regulations, laws, official documents, eyewitness accounts, operational procedures

You can also view the links to 2013's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at News Chronology 2013) Study of an experiment (2001) at a high school in Georgia, USA, where paddling was reintroduced, for minor infractions, but purely as an option freely chosen by the student instead of detention or in-school suspension. The program was successful. Corporal punishment: Is it effective? An empirical study of school punishment records, by Harold A. Hoff Forgive me, Sir John. Please understand that, when it's so easy for someone to go on the internet and (in effect) write fiction, honest witnesses sometimes get suspected unjustly. I do in fact have some evidence which seems to support your account in general terms. (I hope everyone will understand why I'm going to keep it to myself for the time being.) But there are other things which don't quite seem to ring true.It is interesting later when Lise is contemplating her future as a Mother herself that she simulates her thoughts by pretending to spank an imaginary child. That may explain why the spanking was added to this ballet, that going from being the spanked to the spankee signifies the transition from being a girl to womanhood that this ballet portrays. Just some of my thoughts.