Talk:Dunfermline High School

Requested move 26 December 2015

The following is a closed discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was move per request. Unnecessary disambiguation in title. A history swap has been done as the redirect had a non-trivial page history.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 15:59, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

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Dunfermline High School, Dunfermline → Dunfermline High School – I can't see any ambiguity here, so the disambiguator is tautologous. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 19:06, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

• Support - There's no other "Dunfermline High School" here so this is a no-brainer. –Davey2010 ^{Merry Xmas / Happy New Year} 13:47, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Date of founding

The school's website quotes 1468 as the date of founding, and it apparently celebrated the fifth centenary in 1968. The history section though has an uncited claim to pre-1120. This raises two questions:

1. Is there a reliable source to back up the earlier date?
2. Did the school function continuously from the earlier date until the refounding (and for that matter, since)?

Can anyone assist? Martin of Sheffield (talk) 11:54, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Some sources mention that David I of Scotland made and endownmnet/ provision for a school when Dunfermline Abbey was built in 1120s. For example see page 6 of the High School prospectus. I can't find any reliable independent sources that establish a clear connection between the Abbey and the High School. Drchriswilliams (talk) 11:02, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for that link. The second paragraph is particularly interesting. Abbot de Bothwell established Dunferline Grammar School in the town in 1468 and yet schooling in the monastic Grammar School persisted until 1560. Thus for nearly a century there appear to have been two, separate, schools: one monastic, one secular. IMHO I think the founding date has therefore to be 1468, not 1120. Still pretty ancient though. The 1648 interruption can hardly be counted; a town fire and resumption within a year is pretty good. Martin of Sheffield (talk) 11:46, 12 October 2016 (UTC)