Room 2D

Photo-story from Janus 132 featuring Tara Duncan and Natalie (aka Andrea Spinks) Hilary Hanbury-Boyce watched from the window, and waited. One, or both, the girls would surely do something soon to give her cause to punish them in the way she longed to. As inheritor and sole inhabitant of the Old Hall after her husband, the Brigadier died, Hilary had since become a magistrate as well as acquiring a name as the village disciplinarian. And today, with any luck, she’d be able to shed the gravitas of the one and eagerly don the mantle of the other. Of course, those two out there in her garden making a hash of the simplest task had no idea of the danger they were in. What were their names — Tara and Natalie? To them, it was just another laugh — like the village shoplifting expedition they’d embarked on, which had landed them in front of Mrs Hanbury-Boyce, Magistrate. And it had been that austere lady’s decision that, it being the girl

From the highly sought after Phoenix 14, with superb illustrations by Hans Braun. In the span of history, until relatively recently, a beating was given across the bare flesh, and dress had a significance limited to the procedures and drama of its removal. Before the great change, the chances were that a victim would be crudely stripped and flogged without more ado, but, if dress played any part at all, it was as an agent of humiliation rather than as a layer of protection: a soldier was the more shamed by being stripped of his full-dress uniform and, by the same token, many a principal of a girls’ school would choose an occasion when the girls were in their ‘Sunday Best’ to take out one of their numbers for the enforced exposure that preceded a bare bottom birching. The ‘great change’ was scarcely more than a hundred years ago — in the middle of the nineteenth century — when a supposed Victorian morality, and an even more suspe