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The Act also replaced the School Boards with 38 specialist local education authorities, which were elected by a form of proportional representation in order to protect the rights of the Catholic minority. These would be subsumed into local government in 1929. [5] Girls at Cranhill Secondary School, Glasgow, 1967. The increased opportunities for ...
Editor of The Scottish Tradition, (Edinburgh, 1974). The Anglo-Norman Era in Scottish History, (Oxford, 1980). Kingship and Unity: Scotland, 1000–1306, (London, 1981). Scotland and its Neighbours in the Middle Ages, (London, 1992) – another collection of his scholarly articles.
By the end of the Middle Ages grammar schools could be found in all the main burghs and some small towns. Early examples including the High School of Glasgow in 1124 and the High School of Dundee in 1239. [5] There were also petty schools, more common in rural areas and providing an elementary education. [6]
After the Protestant party became dominant in 1560, the First Book of Discipline set out a plan for a school in every parish, but this proved financially impossible. In the burghs the existing schools were largely maintained, with the song schools and a number of new foundations becoming reformed grammar schools or ordinary parish schools.
A legacy of the Reformation in Scotland was the aim of having a school in every parish, which was underlined by an act of the Scottish parliament in 1696 (reinforced in 1801). In rural communities this obliged local landowners (heritors) to provide a schoolhouse and pay a schoolmaster, while ministers and local presbyteries oversaw the quality ...
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1 May – Scottish District local elections result in big gains for the Labour Party. 7 May – Aberdeen F.C. secures the Scottish Football League Premier Division championship. 26 June – The Glasgow Central by-election is held, with Labour retaining the seat despite a 14% swing to the Scottish National Party.
The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: Enlightenment, Britain and Empire (1707–1918) (Edinburgh University Press, 2007), ISBN 0748624813; Brown, Keith M. "Early Modern Scottish History - A Survey," Scottish Historical Review (April 2013 Supplement), Vol. 92, pp. 5–24. Cameron, Ewen A. "The Political Histories of Modern Scotland."