Strangers' Newsletter
Huguenots of Spitalfields Strangers' Newsletter - Issue 25
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Newsletter 25, Autumn 2020 |
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We look forward to welcoming you online or in person as we start our Autumn Programme. Your messages, photographs and donations have been so encouraging as we have navigated these challenging times, not knowing if our efforts to highlight the Huguenots will continue. |
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Coming Soon: Dates for your Diary |
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Free Zoom Talk After textiles, we are told that banking, finance and commerce were the next greatest contribution the Huguenots made to this country. Tim Kidd will talk about some of the characters that changed the way the City worked and their legacy continues. |
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The Huguenots of Soho with Dan Cruickshank – Online Zoom Lecture To coincide with the launch of his latest book (Soho: A Street Guide to Soho’s History, Architecture and People), Dan guides us around the Soho of the last five hundred years, following the Huguenots who settled in the south and the precious metal trade that developed there. |
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Huguenot Footsteps: Soho* |
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Huguenot Footsteps: Spitalfields |
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Amber Butchart: Huguenot Silks and Historical Fashions – Online Zoom Lecture |
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Dr Tessa Murdoch in Conversation with Miriam Hanid, Contemporary Silversmith - |
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8th Annual V&A Huguenot Lecture with Hanne Faurby (awaiting confirmation) |
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Huguenot Footsteps: Spitalfields |
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* Huguenot Footsteps walks have been resumed in-line with government guidelines. |
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We warmly appreciate all the support and help that you give to the Huguenots of Spitalfields Charity. |
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The views and opinions expressed in these article are those of the individual authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Huguenots of Spitalfields charity. Please contact info@huguenotsofspitalfields.org with your comments, views and contributions or requests for previous issues of the Strangers' Newsletter. The charity is currently led by volunteers so do bear with us if there is a delay in the reply to your message. Visit the Huguenots of Spitalfields website at http://www.huguenotsofspitalfields.org/ |
