Spare the Rod: The Journal of a Victorian Schoolmaster in Dorset, 1863-64

36 pp. "...this Journal literally does give an impression of sparing the rod without spoiling the child, and the general picture is of earnest, kind endeavour to lift the children of the poor out of what the teachers no doubt thought of as a morass of benighted ignorance and prejudice. Barry Wheeler has compiled his journal of a Victorian schoolmaster from carefully researched facts drawn from school log-books and journals of the mid-nineteenth century in Dorset."