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| Description | Photocopied extracts from various books relating to punishment and sexual psychology, including:
‘Fear, punishment, anxiety and the Wolfenden Report’ by Charles Berg (1959?)
Studies in the psychology of sex’ by Havelock Ellis
‘Man into wolf’ by Robert Eisler (1951)
‘Mental abnormailty’ by Millais Culpin (1960)
‘Implication of corporal punishment’ by Shirley Livingstone, published in New Behaviour, Sep 1975
Adverts for the Bognor Cane Company, early 1980s, run by George Huntingdon.
Copies of Family View Magazine (a magazine about family life and discipline – strongly linked to caning - edited by George Huntingdon), 1975-1985. Many of the issues includes letters from parents
Extract from ‘The English Vice’ by Ian Gibson (1978), relating to the career of [Eric] George Huntingdon selling canes.
Pamphlets by George Huntingdon: ‘Parents who cane...care’ (early 1970s)
‘The majority view: comments on eight years of selling canes’ by George Huntingdon.
Pamphlet published by Felpham Bazaar, 1974.
Letters to Sir Douglas Hurd, Home Secretary concerning the activities of George Huntingdon, 1985-1986.
Correspondence with Mrs I Colquhoun, The Hyperactive Children’s Support Group, 1984-1986, concerning possible links with Eric Huntingdon. Eric Huntingdon advocated a healthy diet for children to improve behaviour.
Correspondence with Christine Carter, Christian Link Association of Single Parents, 1984, concerning possible links with Eric Huntingdon.
STOPP press releases relating to George Huntingdon and other cane manufacturers: 20 Apr 1981 (demanding the removal of an advertisement for Bognor Cane Company from the Teacher, the newspaper of the NUT). 24 Apr 1984 11 Sep 1985.
Photocopies of press cuttings relating to George Huntingdon, 1984-1986
Price lists for 'school' and 'home' canes
Information leaflets, and car sticker, for SLAPP (Sensible Loving and Practical Parents), also run by Eric Huntingdon, in support of 'home rule' for parents
The contents of this folder was created by Eric Huntingdon, a manufacturer of canes. He advocates for physical punishment in the home largely in response to what it termed the 'permissive society' |