16 April 2008:

- Seven new video clips.

- 11 new archive items for 1817 to 1953.

- 6 new archive items for 1979 to 1991.

- 1 new archive item for 1996.

- 2 new archive items for 1997.

- Country files: updated entries for China, Grenada, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom (judicial) and United States (judicial).

- Country files: new entry for Kenya.

17 March 2008:

- 51 new press items for 2007.

- New article: Overview of the cane and the slipper in England and Wales schools.

- Revised and expanded article on CP in UK reformatories.

- Four new video clips.

- Country files: updated entries for Saudi Arabia (judicial CP) and United States (domestic CP).

29 February 2008:
- 12 new images added to Picture Parade.
- Four new video clips, plus two new external links to other video material.
- Comments updated for existing video clips on Indonesia JCP and UK training ship.
- 17 new external links for UK school CP.
- 11 new external links for US school CP.
- 43 new external links for School CP in other countries.
- 10 new external links for Domestic CP.
- 10 new external links for Other CP.
- All external links across the site checked and updated/weeded where necessary.

31 January 2008:
- 38 new press items for September & October 2007.
- Five new video clips.
- Country files: updated entries for Ghana (school CP), Malaysia (school CP), Pakistan (judicial CP) and USA (judicial CP).

15 January 2008:
- Four new video clips.
- Country files: updated entries for UK judicial and USA judicial.
- 15 new archived press items for 1822 to 1971.
- 3 new archived press items for 1978 to 1994.
- 1 new archived press item for 1998.
- 1 new archived press item for 2004.

31 December 2007:
- 22 news items for August 2007.
- 5 new video clips.
- Country files: New entry for Iran and updated entry for Botswana.

15 December 2007:
- 13 new spanking machines.
- 7 new video clips.
- Country files: New entries for The Bahamas (prison CP) and Fiji (school CP).
- School handbooks (United States): 33 new entries, covering Alabama (3), Arkansas (1), Florida (2), Georgia (1), Mississippi (6), North Carolina (4), Oklahoma (1), South Carolina (1), Tennessee (5), Texas (9).
- School handbooks (other countries): 11 new entries, covering Australia (1), Singapore (9), South Africa (1).
- All external links across the site checked and updated/weeded.

15 November 2007:
- Five new video clips.
- Topics A to Z: updated entries for abolition and boys.
- Topics A to Z: new entry for punishment book extracts.
- 29 new press items for 2007.
- Country files: New entry for Maldives.
- Country files: Updated entries for Malaysia and Tanzania.

31 October 2007:
- 24 new judicial/prison CP pictures.
- Country files: Updated entries for Australia, Canada, Egypt (prison), United Kingdom, United States (judicial) and United States (schools).
- Country files: New entries for Austria, Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt (judicial), Estonia and Finland.

16 October 2007:
- 56 new press items for 2007, together with 21 new images.
- Five new video clips.

30 September 2007:
- Country files (formerly "Countries of the World"): new entries for Belize, Bhutan, Bolivia, Dominica, Pakistan, Poland, and Swaziland.
- Country files: updated entries for Australia, Canada, Germany, Grenada, Saudi Arabia (new separate page), United Kingdom, and United States.
- Country files: new separate pages for South Korea (schools) and United Kingdom (reformatories).
- Added 19 new external links for school CP.
- Three new video clips.
- All external links across the site checked and updated/weeded.
- New policy: all external links now open in a new browser window.

13 September 2007:
- 62 new press items for 2007, together with 12 new images.
- Countries of the World: new entries for The Bahamas and Korea.
- Countries of the World: updated entries for Malaysia, New Zealand and United Arab Emirates.
- Five new video clips.
- US school paddling overview updated.

31 July 2007:
- Countries of the world: New overview of UK reformatory CP, with extracts from 1951 official report on punishments in approved schools and Approved School Rules 1933 and internal govt papers on girls' reformatory riots in 1923.
- Countries of the world: US school paddling overview transferred to new separate page.
- 2 new video clips of US school paddlings.

15 July 2007:
- 55 new press items for 2007.
- Countries of the World: updated entries for India and United Arab Emirates.
- 4 new video clips.

21 June 2007:
- Links to online handbooks of schools that say they use CP (United States): new entries (66 in all) for Alabama (40), Arkansas (4), Georgia (2), Louisiana (3), Mississippi (5), Ohio (1), Tennessee (1), Texas (9), and Wisconsin (1).
- Links to online handbooks of schools that say they use CP (other countries): new entries for Singapore (4) and Zimbabwe (1).
- School handbook pages reorganised, now covering six pages. Many existing entries updated.
- Countries of the World: new entries (including 4 new external links) for Cyprus and Fiji.
- Countries of the World: updated entries (including 2 new external links) for Bermuda, Palestine, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, and Sweden.
- All external links checked and weeded/updated.
- 4 new video clips.

31 May 2007:
- 51 new press items for 2006, including 11 new images.
- Countries of the World: new entries for Guatemala, Qatar (including 2 new external links), and Swaziland.
- Countries of the World: updated entries for The Bahamas, Brunei, Hong Kong, India, Jamaica, Tanzania, Trinidad, United Kingdom, United States, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. These updates include in total 15 new external links.
- Notes on Malaysia JCP video updated in light of new information.

16 May 2007:
- Picture Parade: 10 new images.
- Countries of the World: new illustrated overview of US school paddling (includes some text taken over from "Questions & Answers" page).
- Countries of the World: updated entries for Bangladesh and Trinidad.
- External links: US schools (38 new links), UK schools (3 new links), Domestic CP (1 new link).
- All external links across the site checked and weeded/updated.
- Hate Mail!, recent exchange of correspondence with a hostile reader of this site.

30 April 2007:
- 46 new news items for 2006.
- Countries of the World: updated entries for The Bahamas, Thailand and Zimbabwe.

30 March 2007:
- 19 new video clips.

14 February 2007:
- Links to online handbooks of schools that say they use CP (United States): new entries (73 in all) for Alabama (10), Arkansas (5), Georgia (4), Illinois (1), Indiana (2), Louisiana (6), Missouri (16), New Mexico (2), North Carolina (3), Ohio (6), Tennessee (2), Texas (15), Virginia (1). Also numerous other entries updated.
- Links to online handbooks of schools that say they use CP (other countries): new entries for Australia (1) and Singapore (6).
- 22 new judicial/prison CP pictures, covering Hong Kong (2), India (1), Indonesia (2), Iran (1), Malaysia (6), German Africa (1), Singapore (2), United Kingdom (4), United States (3).
- All external links across the site checked and weeded/updated.

18 January 2007:
- Added 66 news items for 2006.
- Countries of the World: new notes on Singapore school caning.
- Countries of the World: updated or expanded entries for Botswana, Isle of Man, Somalia, Tanzania and United Arab Emirates.

18 November 2006:
- Added 24 historical press items for 1801 to 1970 and four for 1976.

29 October 2006:
- 83 new press items for April, May and June 2006.
- Four new video clips.
- Countries of the World: Reorganised into three pages: Countries A-H, Countries I-S and Countries T-Z. New or expanded entries for Botswana, Brunei, Germany, Ghana, Hong Kong, Thailand, Zimbabwe.

12 October 2006:
- Several new and expanded entries in Countries of the World, including internal and external links to relevant documentation.
- About 50 other new external links.
- Some existing external links moved to the Countries of the World pages.
- The domestic CP external links page has been reorganised and entries are now classified by country.
- One new video clip.
- New school handbook links: 13 for the USA and 2 for other countries. Some existing handbook links updated.
- All 2,000 external links across the site checked and weeded.

10 September 2006:
- 48 new press items for January-April 2006.
- Two new video clips.

31 August 2006:
- US school handbooks: 68 new entries, covering Alabama (2), Arkansas (1), Idaho (1), Indiana (4), Kansas (1), Kentucky (1), Mississippi (8), Missouri (25), N. Carolina (1), Ohio (1), Oklahoma (1), Tennessee (13), Texas (9).
- School handbooks (other countries): 14 new entries, covering Botswana (1), Malaysia (2), Singapore (11).
- Added three new video clips.

5 August 2006:
- 55 press items for February 2006 added to The Archive.
- New video clip of school caning in Thailand.
- Malaysian judicial caning film: Comments further revised. More still pictures from the film added.
- One item added to Questions and Answers page and some other entries on that page slightly revised.
- Information added to the Countries of the World page for Afghanistan, The Bahamas, Barbados, Brunei, China, Ethiopia, Germany, Ghana, Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand and Zambia.
- As an experiment, started outsourcing some video clips to Youtube and/or other similar sites, to get them off my bandwidth.

19 July 2006:
- Malaysian judicial caning film: Comments expanded and rewritten to include translations from Malay soundtrack. New download arrangements.
- Added new external links for CP in reformatories, in prisons, in sects/youth groups, military (naval) and fraternity/fun/folklore. 53 new links in all.
- School handbooks: 10 more Singapore caning schools added.
- All external links across the site checked, and weeded or updated as necessary.
- Added notes on Saudi Arabia in Countries of the world.

27 May 2006:
41 new press items for 2005.
42 new press items for 2006.
Also: updates for Australia, Botswana, Canada, Ghana and Hong Kong in Countries of the World.
Also: new information added for external video clips links.

12 May 2006:
Added two new video clips.

7 April 2006:
12 new pictures added to the Picture Parade page.
Also: all external links checked and weeded.
Also: updated US school paddling entry on "Questions and answers" page.

17 March 2006:
141 new press items for 2005.

28 February 2006:
Two video clips relating to British school CP.

31 January 2006:
Countries of the World updated with new information and links for Australia, Ireland, Jamaica, Trinidad.
Also: 17 new external links for JCP countries A-R and 35 new external links for JCP countries S-Z.
Also: greatly expanded and rewritten About this website page.
Also: one new item added to the Spank While you Sell supplement.
Also: All external links across the site checked and weeded or updated.

10 December 2005:
10 new judicial or prison CP pictures with accompanying discussion, covering India, New Guinea, Korea and the United Kingdom. Some other texts on that page revised.

30 November 2005:
Current online handbooks of schools that use CP: 41 new links for US schools in states H to N and 3 new links for schools in countries other than the US. Certain texts on other handbooks pages also updated.
Also: additions to South African JCP (adults) page, including external link to photographs of flogging frame.
Also: text for Malaysian JCP video clip page revised in light of further translation of Malay dialogue.
Also: all 2,150 external links across the site checked and weeded or updated as necessary.

7 November 2005:
72 new press items for 2005.

28 October 2005:
Added 9 new JCP pictures and updated commentary on several others.
Rewrote commentary on Malaysian JCP video clip and moved it to new video clips page. Uploaded clip to own server for direct download from this website.

18 October 2005:
Link to video clip of genuine Malaysian judicial caning.

11 September 2005:
66 new links to online handbooks of schools that say they use CP in United States - States A to G.
All 2,101 external links across the website checked, and updated or deleted where necessary.

31 August 2005:
18 new historical press items from 1817 to 1947.

12 August 2005:
141 new press items for 2005.

31 July 2005:
Feature article on Judicial caning in Singapore substantially rewritten with extra material, and expanded to include Malaysia and Brunei.
Nine new images added to Picture Parade page, and text updated for two existing pictures.

15 July 2005:
Great Whacking Schools: the Friends Reunited Evidence rewritten and expanded.
New Top Fifty UK schools table.
Added first section of new UK CP anecdotes database.

21 June 2005:
65 new press items for 2005.

12 June 2005:
"Rules, legislation, regulations, modus operandi, etc." page renamed Countries of the World. Data, documents and external links added to it for Anguilla, Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Botswana, UK.
All external links across entire site checked and weeded.

29 May 2005:
88 news items for 2005.

19 May 2005:
28 new external links on UK school CP
and
41 new external links on school CP in countries other than USA and UK, and in the world in general.
All external links checked and weeded.

18 April 2005:
45 news items for 2004.

5 April 2005:
6 pictures added to the Judicial/Prison CP Pictures page. Several other texts on that page updated.

22 March 2005:
37 new links on prison/reformatory/fraternity/army/navy/etc. CP
and 17 new links on domestic CP. The latter now form a new separate page. All external links checked and weeded.

13 March 2005:
Supplement to the Spank While You Sell feature, with 11 new images of CP in advertising.

25 February 2005:
53 news items for 2004.

17 February 2005:
Added 56 new external links on US school CP.

31 January 2005:
Major new 12-part feature article, Judicial corporal punishment in South Africa.

16 January 2005:
24 new pictures relating to judicial or prison CP.

28 November 2004:
92 news items for 2004.

14 November 2004:
80 new links to on-line handbooks of schools that say they use CP, and several others updated. Also a new book review. All external links checked and revised or removed as necessary.

14 October 2004:
20 new historical press items for 1976 to 1980.

25 September 2004:
116 news items for 2004.
Also: created new topic in 'Topics A to Z', Unofficial judicial CP.

6 September 2004:
Created Judicial CP pictures page, with six new photographs. Also transferred to it four existing pictures from Picture Parade page, with Malaysia item extensively rewritten and an extra photograph added.
Also: all external links checked and updated.

15 August 2004:
26 new historical press items for 1998.

31 July 2004:
52 new external links.

18 July 2004:
New article, "Stretching Forward to Learn".

30 June 2004:
129 news items for 2004.

12 June 2004:
26 new external links added to Regulations, Descriptions and Official Documents page.

30 May 2004:
10 new historical press items for 1997.

9 May 2004:
90 news items for 2004.

19 April 2004:
4 new photographs added to Picture Parade and some commentaries on existing pictures rewritten.

21 March 2004:
54 new links to online handbooks of schools or school districts that say they use CP.

22 February 2004:
69 new external links.

8 February 2004:
87 news items for 2003.

20 January 2004:
New book review. Also added artist's impression of UK school birching to existing book review.
All external links checked and updated where necessary.

14 December 2003:
Two new photographs in Picture Parade.

24 November 2003:
16 new historical press items for 1996.

10 November 2003:
92 new external links.

4 November 2003:
104 news items for 2003.

19 October 2003:
Three new pictures added to Picture Parade and commentary on five existing pictures revised.

10 October 2003:
40 new online school handbooks. Some existing handbook entries updated. All external links checked and updated where necessary.

1 October 2003:
Three new book reviews.
Eyewitness account of judicial caning in Sudan during British rule.

13 September 2003:
Added 26 historical press items from 1976 to 1995.

27 August 2003:
Kissing the Gunner's Daughter - Part II: The 1860s Ryder Reforms. Second instalment of multi-part illustrated feature article about CP for boys in the UK Royal Navy.
In conjunction with the above, four new documents concerning the Royal Navy added to Rules, Regulations and Official Documents page. Also: External links on that page checked and updated.

5 August 2003:
46 online school handbooks added. Dead links removed or updated.

27 July 2003:
116 news items for 2003.

7 July 2003:
104 new external links. Existing links checked and dead ones updated or removed.

10 June 2003:
81 online school handbooks added. Existing school links checked, dead links removed or updated.

8 May 2003:
78 news items for 2003.

22 April 2003:
90 new external links.

11 April 2003:
7 new pictures added to "Picture Parade" page.
New picture of Canadian judicial flogging frame and cat-o'-nine-tails.
All external links checked and dead links updated or removed.

21 February 2003:
125 news items for 2002.

5 February 2003:
36 new historical press items from 1685 to 1968.

13 January 2003:
New illustrated feature Spank While you Sell: Corporal punishment imagery in print advertising.
Added an additional question and answer to Some Questions Answered.

28 December 2002:
New article Corporal Punishment in Northern Ireland.
Extracts from Borstal in Ireland.

2 December 2002:
48 new links to online handbooks of schools that use CP.

25 November 2002:
173 new external links.

10 November 2002:
83 news items for 2002.

30 October 2002:
Restored External links.

28 October 2002:
Restored Book reviews.

27 October 2002:
Certain answers to readers' questions revised.
Restored Links to handbooks of schools using CP.

24 October 2002:
Table 2 to "Corporal punishment: The Friends Reunited evidence" removed for copyright reasons pending legal discussions.

18 October 2002:
Restored Regulations, descriptions and official documents.

17 October 2002:
Restored Search function, Picture index, Topics A to Z, contact information.

15 October 2002:
Uploaded rewritten explanatory page, new "Apologies for absence" page, Feature articles (including new article on "The Friends Reunited evidence" with "Top Thirty Whacking Schools" appendix), Essays & opinions, Answers to questions from readers, new Main Menu page, The Archive.

13 October 2002:
DNS servers switched to new web hosting company in Amsterdam. Temporary dummy front page uploaded.