Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland
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The Huguenots were members of the French Protestant Church, many of whom, in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, left their homes in France to escape persecution. More than 50,000 of these refugees came to the British Isles and, in 1718, a French Hospital was founded in London. In 1885, the directors of the Hospital created a Society to promote the publication and interchange of knowledge about Huguenot history.
The Society supports academic research into Huguenot history and in 2022 launched an annual bursary of £1000 to support and encourage research among students in higher education into Huguenot individuals and communities.
It also helps to bring notice of an annual scholarship of up to £4,000, awarded by the trustees of the French Huguenot Church of London Charitable Trust to a student working for a higher degree on a Huguenot subject. The Huguenot Library is housed with UCL Special Collections at The National Archives, Kew.
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1885
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PO Box 444
Ruislip
Middlesex
HA4 4GU
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Waldensian Church Missions; Amitiés Huguenotes Internationales, France; Virtual Museum of French Protestantism, France; Groupe de Recherches en Histoire des Protestantismes, France; The Huguenot Society of Australia, Australia; Société Royale d'Histoire du Protestantisme Belge, Belgium; Centre de Documentation du Protestantisme Belge, Belgium; La Société Guernesiaise, Guernsey; Société Jersiaise (Lord Coutanche Library), Jersey; La Société de l'Histoire du Protestantisme Français, France; Société d'Histoire du Protestantisme en Normandie, France; Consistorium der Französischen Kirche zu Berlin, Germany; Deutsche Hugenotten-Gesellschaft, Germany; Deutsche Waldenservereinigung e. V., Germany; Herzog August Bibliothek, Germany; J.A. Lasco Bibliothek, Germany; RCB Library, Ireland; Società di Studi Valdesi, Italy; Fondation Huguenote des Pays-Bas, Netherlands; Polskie Towarzystwo Hugenockie, Poland; Huguenot Society of South Africa, South Africa; Société d'Histoire et d'Archéologie de Genève, Switzerland; The Huguenot Society of America, USA; Huguenot Society of South Carolina, USA
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2026-10-05 09:33:00