King's School (Canterbury, England)
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- ISSUU.com, The Cantuarian, vol. 18, no. 3, July, 1940, viewed August 2, 2024:page 39 (The King's School, after dwelling under the shadow of the Cathedral of Canterbury for 1,300 years, has been forced to remove itself elsewhere; in the South of Cornwall, the School of Canterbury lives until the hand of peace shall guide it back to our ancient heritage)
- The King's School Canterbury website, viewed August 2, 2024:About, History (navigation tabs for Junior King's, Senior School, and The International College; the King's School, our Senior School, is widely regarded as the oldest school in England, its story intertwined with that of the United Kingdom's first cathedral, Canterbury Cathedral)
- Wikipedia, August 2, 2024(The King's School, Canterbury; a public school in Canterbury, Kent, England; Britain's oldest public school, and arguably the oldest continuously operating school in the world; started as a medieval cathedral school, said to have been founded in AD 597 by Augustine of Canterbury; the school was boys-only for almost 1400 years, until the early 1970s when girls were admitted to the Sixth Form for the first time; it has been fully co-educational since 1990; there are 16 houses, 13 boarding and 3 day)
- Galway, J. James Galway's Christmas carol [SR] p1986:container (King's School, Canterbury)
- BLAISE, 10/86(King's School (Canterbury))