One of the boys who took part in the protest said: "We're not allowed to wear shorts, and I'm not sitting in trousers all day, it's a bit hot." Head teacher Aimee Mitchell said shorts were "not ...

"I am very interested to know how the fashion of short trousers for boys came about. It seems to have started in the early 1920s and finished about 1960. Photographs before the 1914-18 war show ...