| List of Illustrations
List of Maps and Tables
Preface to First Edition
Preface to Second Edition
Note on Quotations and Abbreviations
Date Chart
Introduction
1 An Exposed Minority
2 Walloon and Huguenot Settlements in England
3 Refugees and the English Government
4 Crafts and Trades
5 Professions
6 Huguenots and their Churches
7 Opposition
8 Huguenots and the Later Stuarts
9 Huguenots and the Defeat of Louis XIV’s
France
10 The Process of Assimilation
Appendix: Tracing Huguenot Ancestors
Bibliography
Index
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“Rarely does anyone, let
alone a reviewer, wish that a book were twice its length, but
this one is so informative, balanced and crisply written that
it leaves the reader hungry for more.” Bernard Levin
“The best survey of the Huguenots in England – a
significant work of scholarship and a work easily accessible
to the general reader. This new, significantly updated, edition
is welcomed.” English Historical Review
“Delightfully written. This second edition is not only
updated but also more comprehensively footnoted and illustrated
than the first. Gwynn is to be congratulated once again on a
book that is at once erudite and eminently approachable.”
Local Population Studies
“An exemplary account of
the people who gave the term ‘refugee’ to our language…
The text, plates, maps, tables, references and bibliographical
notes of Gwynn’s book, the first full-length-study of
the Huguenots in Britain to appear this century, are continually
interesting… [an] impressive achievement.” TLS
“An attractive study of the situation and assets
of the Huguenots in the English community. The New Zealander
Robin Gwynn has incorporated recent material into this fully
revised version of an earlier work. The rich history of this
community is portrayed in a colourful and lively way, supported
by beautiful illustrations... The assimilation of these French
people into the English community in the course of the eighteenth
century provides the most interesting chapter. Fascinating.
Highly recommended." Transparant (The Netherlands)
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