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  • Middlesex House of Correction: a man is holding a birch in his hand as he stands over a shaped wooden plank set near a window for flogging boys; a man and a woman look on. Wood engraving after M. Fitzgerald, 1874..
  • A woman school-teacher sitting on a chair with birches in her hand as a small boy stands in front of her and another child holding a book looks on. Engraving by W.H. Simmons after T. Webster.
  • A schoolroom with animals as teachers and pupils. Engraving after E. van Heemskerck.
  • Saint Elizabeth of Hungary. Halftone after P.H. Calderon.
  • Play safe play sexy : fantasies / fetishes / produced by Gay Health Network Ireland.
  • A boy is caught by a shopkeeper and threatened with a stick as punishment for breaking a window. Coloured lithograph after J.R. Barfoot.
  • A schoolroom with animals as teachers and pupils. Engraving by W.H. Toms after E. van Heemskerck.
  • Play safe play sexy : fantasies / fetishes / produced by Gay Health Network Ireland.
  • Newgate Prison, London: a man's shirt is being laid over his shoulders by a prison warder after he has been flogged by a man with a cat o'nine tails. Wood engraving, 1872.