survive of the expenses made to feed the Scottish royal household in the sixteenth century, and the remains of royal kitchens can be seen in the ruins of...
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The office of Master of the Household is one of the Great Offices of the Royal Household of Scotland. It was held by various Earls of Argyll from the...
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Scottish cuisine (Scots: Scots cookery/cuisine; Scottish Gaelic: Biadh na h-Alba) encompasses the cooking styles, traditions and recipes associated with...
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The Royal Households of the United Kingdom are the collective departments that support members of the British royal family. Many members of the royal...
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in the royal household, and by inference, inspired the confidence of the general public. At a time when product quality was a public issue, a royal warrant...
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The medieval household was, like modern households, the center of family life for all classes of European society. Yet in contrast to the household of...
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class and state, gender or religion is another element of food security. Similarly, household food security is considered to exist when all the members...
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official host of the visitor. It is a royal event that involves all the assets in the Civil Service, the Royal Household and the Household Division. It also...
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Alastair Bruce of Crionaich (category Members of the British Royal Household)
journalist and television correspondent, and a senior British Army reservist and officer of arms in the Royal Household. He commanded the TA Media Operations...
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Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's...
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2024 New Year Honours (category 2024 awards in the United Kingdom)
Service Scotland David Gibson, Watch Commander, Scottish Fire and Rescue Service. Iain Morris, Acting Director, Asset Management, Scottish Fire and Rescue...
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Scottish Society in the High Middle Ages pertains to Scottish society roughly between 900 and 1286, a period roughly corresponding to the general historical...
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Purveyance (category Monarchy and money)
right of the English Crown to purchase provisions and other necessaries for the royal household, at an appraised price, and to requisition horses and vehicles...
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Seneschal (category Court titles in the Ancien Régime)
position filled by a court appointment within a royal, ducal, or noble household during the Middle Ages and early Modern period – historically a steward...
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Duncan Forestar (category Household of Margaret Tudor)
household accounts for Margaret Tudor, and but these records do not now survive. His accounts written in Latin mention royal servants, including the king's...
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Fortnum & Mason (redirect from Fortnum and Mason Food and Drink Awards)
as the gentlemen's department on the first floor. It also contains a tea shop and several restaurants. William Fortnum was a footman in the household of...
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Refrigerator (redirect from Household refrigerator)
kitchen. The refrigerator allows the modern household to keep food fresh for longer than before. Freezers allow people to buy perishable food in bulk and eat...
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Archibald Edmonstone of Duntreath (courtier) (category 16th-century Scottish people)
of the hunting forest at Glen Finglas, Archibald Edmonstone was involved in hosting the royal hunting household at the Hunt Hall in the glen and providing...
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Gilbert Balfour (category Masters of the Scottish royal household)
bringing the food into the Great Hall, which he joined as a Master of Household walking with the Laird of Findlater and Francisco de Busso. During the entertainment...
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Patrick Hume of Polwarth (category Masters of the Scottish royal household)
the Scottish court, probably by his father as a member of the royal household, sometime before 1580. He became one of the household servants of the king...
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James Anstruther (category Masters of the Scottish royal household)
appointed to the royal household, and an overview of the finances of the household. Amongst the recorded expenses of the household, he paid the queen's Danish...
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known as the Yeomen of the Crown); and (3) the esquires of the royal household. The actual number of archers varied over the course of the 14th-15th...
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Andrew Melville of Garvock (category Masters of the Scottish royal household)
and venison. They were asked to have the food delivered to Andrew Melville at the old royal mint in Edinburgh. Melville received a pension from the lands...
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The Royal Court of Scotland was the administrative, political and artistic centre of the Kingdom of Scotland. It emerged in the tenth century and continued...
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Dunfermline Palace (redirect from Royal Palace of Dunfermline)
former Scottish royal palace and important tourist attraction in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. It is currently, along with other buildings of the adjacent...
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English cuisine (redirect from England/Food and Drink)
After the First World War, many new food products became available to the typical household, with branded foods advertised for their convenience. Kitchen...
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Edinburgh, 2006 Scottish Inventors . . . who keep the world in touch, Global Friends of Scotland (a Scottish Executive website) Scottish Inventors and their Inventions...
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Kingdom of Alba (category Articles containing Scottish Gaelic-language text)
The Kingdom of Alba (Latin: Scotia; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) was the Kingdom of Scotland between the deaths of Donald II in 900 and of Alexander III in...
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Victorian cuisine (section Royal household)
ideal of femininity, the "Angel of the House", that limited women's role in society to matters concerning the household. Despite the restrictiveness of...
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The Scottish pork taboo is a purported historical taboo against the consumption of pork amongst the Scottish people, particularly Highlanders. The phrase...
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