Introduction to the Huguenots

Dr Dinah Winch, Director of the Huguenot Museum in Rochester, Kent, talks about the historical background to the arrival in the UK of some 70,000 Huguenot refugees from France in the late 17th century, and discusses the aims of the Huguenot Museum, founded in 2015.
In conversation with Robert Winder, author of Bloody Foreigners: The Story of Immigration to Britain and trustee of the Migration Museum, London, she also considers the relevance of the Huguenot experience to later group of refugees
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[@JaniceWOLF-io6ye]

What a wonderfully interesting program and beautifully presented. Extremely interesting. Thank you it has awakened my interest.

[@CalienteDesign]

There was a very important silk weaving community in Boston, Massachusetts. Benjamin Franklin was involved in developing the silk weaving industry in colonial America. My family, the Hemenways, were silk merchants for many generations. I remember my grandmother taking silk stockings and making yarn out of them and then weaving it into beautiufl tapestries.

[@lisaricks4409]

I'm trying to find out more on my Pierre Cresson family . He was a gardener for the Prince of Orange, born at the Creeson Manor in France. Fled here in the later 1600s as a Huguenot.

[@dt1mdlara]

For a follow up, I was wrong, the Sports Team Name is actually Argonauts! Oh well, I learned more about history. Thank you very much for sharing and God bless.

[@maxinejarrett7077]

I am trying to find out more information about the Huguenot food culture, restaurants etc in the EC3 London area in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.

[@dt1mdlara]

Very interesting. Knew nothing about the word until today. Heard it mentioned in a bible study and had me curious since it sounded like the name of a Sports Team of the University close to where we live.

[@ASKSer79]

My French Huguenot ancestors fled Orleans to Strasbourg then to Pennsylvania ❤

[@xavisanchez7522]

Hugenots are not french, despite modern day narrative. And i bet your ancestors did not speak french, occitan breton or any other native language because french like spanish are invasive languages,

[@xavisanchez7522]

The first ever migrants, check the naturalization chart and adoption& embracing process of the catalan nobles and their Compamies with their mariners , Cabot, Hawkins( Quinós) Burès, Rossell,along with the mercers and drapers , basic industries to develop ships to sail to the atlantic.
Catalans founded and built what later was called the portuguese, british, french and spanish empires.
We are the descendants of the carolingians& roman empire.

[@indigoskyyz7734]

I would like to have my Hugenot ancestry traced. How do I contact Dr. Winch?

[@SDBOGLE]

The Huguenots were Muslim
Moors and Sephardic Jews who upon
The persecution by the Roman Catholic Empire of Spain migrated into western Europe France Holland and England. Those in France converted to Huguenots a confederation.
They also the Puritans Quakers protestent and other religious groups at the time fighting the Catholics Empire

[@xavisanchez7522]

Just make sure to remember here there has to be all french and all happens in france nowhere else ffs