It is said that even though your original homeland was forsaken by your ancestor many decades or even centuries before, the desire to...

On a recent visit to Blois I was delighted to find the town commemorating one of its famous sons. Denis Papin has been born in Blois on...

I mentioned in my last podcast Richard Field and Thomas Vautrollier, and I would like to expand in this second part on the working life...

People often assume, quite wrongly, that Huguenots did not arrive here before the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. However,...

In my last blog I said I would next write about the global diaspora of Huguenots. When these people left their homeland often their...

Huguenots were forged by adversity. They were persecuted, imprisoned, even put to death, but their indomitable spirit was neither beaten...

Last month, I posted a blog about the briefest of introductions to the Huguenots and a little of their history but of course we need to...

Many people at some point in their lives will begin to wonder what their family origins are. For most the start of the journey into their...

Leaving their homeland was often a sad and desperate decision to make. Once made, often the journey itself could be both difficult and...

The Huguenot Church has been famous for its martyrs, but among them none were more self-sacrificing than the women. There is one place...

We have all experienced during this last year periods of great restraint in our lives, such as limitations on when we leave home, where...

My last blog spoke of the sheer desperation felt by Huguenots as one by one almost all of the safeguards within the Edict of Nantes were...

I would like you try to imagine what it would have been like to fell forced to flee your homeland, especially during unfavourable weather...

On the 22nd October 1685, The Edict of Fontainebleau, more commonly known as the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV was...

Following on from my blog last month about the St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, I am now going to tell you about the next chapter in this...

August had been a hot month, but tensions were high as the guests had arrived for the wedding of the Protestant Henri of Navarre and the...

Yesterday, was the anniversary of the birth of a man who was to become a famous King of France, he was also highly respected by the...

This week is very much on a theme of France. We have of course celebrated Bastille Day on the 14 July, an important date for all of...

There are many things we have not been able to do in the last few months but apart from physica exercise there is one other important...

History is like the wheel of fortune - it goes around and around. 2020 and we are in the midst of a pandemic as we were in 1918 and we...