A Google news feed the other day pointed me to a story of a school which had uncovered a pile of rather fascinating document in its archive. (As the newspaper concerned is one I dislike intensely, I won’t honour it by linking to its site, I’m afraid).
To quote:
The punishments dealt out in the 1970s and 80s were detailed in a book entitled ‘Record of Corporal Punishment’ found by [the] headmaster… as he looked for artefacts to help with his primary school’s centenary celebrations.
Said book was duly photographed (badly), along with (perhaps more interesting) the regulations from the local authority regarding the administration of corporal punishment:
The final sentence of point (d) is particularly fascinating: “if delegated” [my, slightly surprised, italics!].
@-@ WOW!