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Mar 2024
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Corporal Punishment: ill disciplines

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Swish… thwack. After the war, one British tradition continued unabated: beating children in schools. It wasn’t until the early 1990s that it was completely outlawed. Why was the UK so attached to corporal punishment and what it did it take to change the law? Ros Taylor talks to journalist Andrew Brown, who was beaten as a boy, and University of Sheffield his ... Show More
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