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Vor 5 Tagen · Having identified so completely with the British of 1919, Lloyd is at pains to play down the various types of punishment the authorities implemented once martial law had been declared after mid-April. In the lane in Amritsar where a British female missionary had been brutally attacked by a crowd, Dyer ordered Indians to crawl on all ...
Vor 4 Tagen · Contested Reformations in the University of Cambridge, 1535-1584 Ceri Law London, Royal Historical Society, 2018, ISBN: 9780861933471; 235pp.
Vor 5 Tagen · By the later 18th century, those calling for reform of the penal system argued that hanging for shoplifting was ‘a punishment so much out of all proportion to the crime’ that it rendered the law ineffective by making shopkeepers reluctant to prosecute: ‘the punishment is too great for the offence; and prosecutors are very ...
Vor 3 Tagen · "Corporal punishment in schools was forbidden by law," he had gone on. "Flogging was lawful as sentence of court only in one small province, Delaware, and there only for a few crimes and was rarely invoked; it was regarded as ‘cruel and unusual punishment.’ " Dubois had mused aloud, "I do not understand objections to ‘cruel and unusual’ punishment. While a judge should be benevolent in ...
Vor 2 Tagen · It gave unparalleled rights to slaves. It included the right to marry, gather publicly or take Sundays off. Although the Code Noir authorized and codified cruel corporal punishment against slaves under certain conditions, it forbade slave owners to torture them or to separate families. It also demanded enslaved Africans receive ...
Vor einem Tag · Registration at birth, corporal punishment, and fagging are no longer practised at Eton. [58] [59] [60] Academic standards were raised, and by the mid-1990s Eton ranked among Britain's top three schools in getting its pupils into Oxford and Cambridge .
Vor 5 Tagen · The sheer volume of potential materials on British comics can be seen on the cover of this issue, which features a quilt by artist, Gillian Johnson. Gillian Johnson produced her quilt for her dissertaion at Dundee University. She explained ‘I fell in love with the artistry of British comics when researching for my dissertation. To create a lasting memory I made a quilt (150cms x 180 cms) of ...
