Can any history minded buffs supply more information about a rebellion of pupils which occurred at-now the details are sketchy-think it was something like an institution school in the Smithfield area of London where the cause of the revolt was excessively severe corporal punishment around 1790-1820?Both boys and girls were involved?
The other case involved a Headmistress who alledgedly allowed paying gents to voyeuristically view for a fee her punishing of girls every Friday?Same timeframe.(this was around the time of Whipping Tom bum beater of Olde London)
(Friday morning was generally caning time perhaps to allow bottoms to recover over a weekend?)
I will hunt for more details but am shy about talking to young lady be-spectacled large hipped Librarians etc about this in case of being thought"odd".

I too have read of the Headmistress who supplemented her school's fee income by allowing paying "gentlemen" to watch through a secret spyhole cut in the wall, while girls were being corporally punished. The punishments occurred every Friday, which was the school's traditional "punishment day" and took the form of birching the girls on their bare buttocks. The school, I recall from the account, existed during 1780s or 90s.

The account which I read was in a book called "Sexual Life in England" by a Dr. Ivan Bloch. There was a whole chapter in the book devoted the "Le Vice Anglais - Flagellomania", in which the account of this particular school was described. Unfortunately, I no longer have a copy of the book and don't know whether it is still in print.