Men's Accounts of Boarding School

Margaret Laughton has worked with boarding school survivors' organizations for 17 years. Her present work as a BSS-Support Director includes the newsletter and annual conference. Allison Paech –Ujejski has researched and worked with boarding school survivors since the early 1990s and has taught in several boarding schools. She is currently a Director of BSS-Support Andrew Patterson is an Australian author, ethics consultant and former detective investigating child abuse for many years. He was sent away to an English boarding school when he was seven.

Foreword: Nick Duffell; Introduction; 1. Memories; Introduction, Joy Schaverien; For My Own Good, Mike Timms; Tying it all Together, Crispin Ellison; Raining Pain, Khalid Roy; I was Wonderfully Good and Never Shed a Tear, John Duncan; A Five-year Old’s Rush to Prove Himself a Man, Philip Batchelor ; The Life of a Modern Boarder, Gareth Coleman; Surviving Boarding School, Ardhan Swatridge; Sursum Corda, Anupam Ganguli; 2. Reflections; Introduction; Leaving home, Mike Dickens; Life in the Ha Ha, Robert Arnold; As Secret as a Lady’s Handbag, Gordon Knott; All Self Left Behind, Peter Adams; How Did You Survive?, Simon Darragh; Schooldays, David Bennett; A Former Boarder’s Habits and Feelings, Jonathan Sutton; Antipodean Reflections, Andrew Patterson; 3. Recovery; Introduction; Emotional Courage, Thurstine Basset; Pulling it Together, Jonathan Burr; With Sadness comes Joy, Robert Arnold; The Metamorphosis…and Back, Lech Mintowt-Czyz; Afterword, Darrel Hunnybell