A full length study of the Huguenots in Britain.

Robin Gwynn is a historian of Early Modern England, formerly Reader in History at Massey University, New Zealand. His speciality has long been the study of Huguenot refugees and the French communities in Britain, and in 1985 he was Director of the Huguenot Heritage tercentenary commemoration under the patronage of H.M. The Queen. His books include the widely acclaimed Huguenot Heritage (2nd edn, Sussex Academic Press, 2001), and editions of later seventeenth century letters and consistory minutes of the largest of the many French churches in England.

Contents: Introduction; An Exposed Minority; Walloon and Huguenot Settlements in England; Refugees and the English Government; Crafts and Trades; Professions; Huguenots and their Churches; Opposition; Huguenots and the Later Stuarts; Huguenots and the Defeat of Louis XIV's France; The Process of Assimilation; Appendix: Tracing Huguenot Ancestors; Bibliography; Index.