I came to Dunbar Grammar School as Principal Teacher of History in October 1966. During my time at Hawick High School and at Galashiels Academy, both as a pupil and teacher, I had been involved…
Category: Royal Charter
I started this project as a follow up to the start of the spread of the Corona virus to tell a new generation in Dunbar about the importance of the Royal Charter which created the…
Dunbar in Lockdown– a personal perspective reflecting on the effect of Covid-19 on Dunbar. To find a precedent for the current lockdown, one should go back to the winter of 1337/8 when Dunbar was besieged by the Earls of Salisbury and Arundel…
Clan Dunbar International is a group which was set up in the United States in 1977 by Robert Bruce Dunbar. It was incorporated in the state of Florida in 1982 as a clan society There…
As the centenary of the Great War approached interest in the whole story of the war increased. Programmes on television meant that we were reliving much of it. This interest has carried on to the…
The seeds which grew into the Jumelage go back a long time. Andre Monrocher had studied in Edinburgh and his wife Danielle had been an “assistante” in Dunbar Grammar School. East Lothian District Council c…