Canterbury, Kent
The Huguenot settlement in Canterbury started when the authorities considered the community in Sandwich, Kent, to have grown too large. 100 families were accepted in […]
Bristol
Bristol was one of a second group of towns, after Ipswich and Rye in 1681, in which new Huguenot settlements developed. From the end of […]
Bideford, Devon
Running off from Bideford’s Allhalland Street is Chapel Lane, named after the Huguenot Chapel that used to be in the lane. A French Huguenot congregation […]
Barnstaple, Devon
The first Huguenots arrived in Barnstaple in 1685. The year the Edict of Nantes was revoked. The way in which the town responded to the […]
Letters from Flemish and Walloon Women to their families in England
Dr Alistair Duke’s talk ‘There’s scarcely a day that my heart doesn’t weep’ – letters from Flemish and Walloon Women to their families in England […]
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50 Huguenot Heroes
A list of 50 ‘Huguenot Heros’ including the actor David Garrick and the silver and goldsmith Paul de Lamerie
The French Hospital Huguenot Prayer
The following prayer is said before every quarterly Court meeting and has been said in French since the Hospital began 300 years ago. PRIERE POUR […]
Bishop of London’s Speech at Christ Church Spitalfields, 17 October 2016
We are going to be receiving some hundreds of unaccompanied child refugees and of course it was the Huguenots who gave refugee to the English […]
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Sermon by Revd Carr
Trinity 21 Trinity 21 | 16th October 2016 | EvensongIn Commemoration of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantesby the Rector, Revd. Alan Carr, St. Giles-in-the-Field […]
South African Huguenot Names – Submitted by Brian Wood
It was in December 1689 when a group of Huguenots set sail from France to the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. In total, […]
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