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November 2020 Newsletter - Issue 27 |
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This is our last newsletter of the year - a year which has been truly memorable. We have been buoyed by your constant good wishes, emails and tokens of kindness.
There are so many people to thank for helping us through this difficult time, including Linda Fair, Jane Greiner, Paul LeBlond and Charles Baker, who have leapt into action and volunteered to research and write descriptions for the series of Famous Huguenots. Already Anne Tanqueray, Sir John Chardin, Paul Fourdrinier, John Theophilus Desaguliers and David Willaume have been completed. Please let us know of other famous Huguenots to add to our ever-growing list. |
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Thank you too to Tony Taylor, who has helped with our Newsletter and to Sally Medcalf for her research compiling the inventory for the Huguenot House initiative which is an insight into living in an 18th century house. |
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 Huguenot House Notecards |
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 Huguenot House Postcards |
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Christmas is coming and a pack of new Huguenot House in Spitalfields notecards and postcards would make a great stocking filler or for Thank You cards. (It will also help to fund our Education Programme). Designed by architect/artist, Ben Rea, they are drawn to scale and embellished with traditional Huguenot artefacts. |
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10 Postcards - £5 plus £0.66 postage
10 Notecards - £10 plus £1.53 postage
Postage for Europe, USA and Australia on request. Payment can be by BACS, cheque or via Virgin Giving.
Huguenots introduced oxtail soup into this country which is perhaps why our friends at the wonderfully stylish shop, Anthropologie in Brushfield Street E1, donated a number of stunning soup bowls to help raise money. Donations of £15 are welcomed. |
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Soup bowls kindly donated by Anthropologie to help raise money for charity.
A bespoke two-hour Private Walk might be the perfect present for the person who is impossible to buy for this Christmas. To book, email team@huguenotsofspitalfields.org at a price of £150. |
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The highlight of the month was our 'Silversmiths, Past & Present’ Zoom lecture with Dr Tessa Murdoch and Miriam Hanid. Your wonderful feedback has encouraged us to plan more Zoom lectures next Spring.
If you missed it, a recording is available (donations appreciated). Email team@huguenotsofspitalfields.org for details of how to access this. |
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 Miriam Hanid – Artist Silversmith |
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Dates for your Diary
The 2021 Programme will be announced in January. We are planning two series of Zoom Lectures: Skills of the Huguenots and The Huguenot Story.
Huguenot Footsteps Walks will be back from January (hopefully) and we are still taking bookings for Group Tours and Private Walks, in-line with government guidelines.
We were told... |
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...Many of you will have Dan Cruickshank’s book, Soho: A Street Guide to Soho's History, Architecture & People. on your Christmas list. We have been recommended another book, Seeking Sanctuary, A History of Refugees, by Jane Robinson. Available shortly from
Pen and Sword Books.
…Of something to look forward to - the next Réunion de descendants de huguenots à La Rochelle is scheduled from 20 to 26 September 2021. Our fingers are crossed for them! |
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 Dan Cruickshank |
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 Woman in Blue by Thomas Gainsborough. Credit: Wikimedia Commons |
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…Of a talk by May Berkouwer on the fabrics and fashions used in Thomas Gainsborough’s portraits. To watch this fascinating talk, click here.
...Hardly a week goes by without hearing someone has discovered they have Huguenot ancestry. This week we heard of a Norton Folgate resident who traced their ancestry back to Franses (not a typo) and John De La Force, who were velvet weavers, living just a few houses away. We were astounded by the scholarship of the Le Blond family research - Click here for details. Do you have a Huguenot family story? If so, please let us know. |
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..The division of the Bible into chapters was undertaken by Archbishop Stephen Langton (1150-1228), but it was Robert Estienne, a Paris printer and protestant who fled from persecution in Paris to the safety of Geneva in 1524, who first introduced verse numbering.
[Source: A History of the Bible by John Barton]
...Many Huguenots settled in the Marylebone area of London, where once was sited The Rose of Normandy (at 35 Marylebone High Street), so named because of the large number of Huguenot residents.
[Source: The St Marylebone Society]
If you have come across extraordinary facts about the Huguenots we would be delighted to share them with other enthusiasts.
Thank you to those who completed our Survey, we valued your input. We were surprised that only 10% of you live in London. The topics you wanted to hear more about were ancestry, areas of London where the Huguenots settled and Huguenot history. Watch this space! |
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We send our early Christmas wishes from the Huguenot team:
Rachel, Marea and Charlie. And also from our Huguenot guides: Kate, Julia, John, Tim, Guy, Neil, Hugh and Paul. |
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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 https://www.huguenotsofspitalfields.org/ |
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