Appointment With Pain

Punishment day in the disciplinary life of an school in colonial Africa; when the boys and girl boarders, local lads and lasses and their mothers, and even the staff are properly dealt with in traditional & severe style! Very detailed reminiscences from direct experience of the customary disciplinary regimes of the 1920s and 1930s. Authentic period detail of corporal punishment of juveniles & adults. Mostly of boys, with some anecdotes and comments on how things differed for girls, plus comments on its relevance for the present. Plus a story of a schoolmarm who continues her corporal punishment career, with both local ‘boys’ and ‘girls’, former pupils long after she and her girls have left school.