by Huguenot Jo | Mar 13, 2023 | Bedfordshire, Memoir, Puritanism
Why they called me Joy I don’t know. When the midwife asked my mother for my name, she thought she heard the reply “Joey”. If only. They needed a boy, to inherit the family butcher business. I was the last …by Huguenot Jo | Dec 17, 2022 | Catholicism, Puritanism
“…Or was it made to preserve all her children?” – Gerrard Winstanley, Founder of the True Levellers (the "Diggers"), 1649. As gifts, tea towels from the Radical Tea Towel Company are hard to beat for politicos. Apart from the blatantly...by Huguenot Jo | Nov 27, 2022 | Bedfordshire, Puritanism
Bedfordshire, where I grew up, is a dull county of no note in the middle of England. It probably does deserve its own day to give it a boost, especially since Northamptonshire – another dull county in the middle …by Huguenot Jo | Nov 24, 2022 | America, Puritanism
Huguenot Jo warmly wishes you a joyous celebration of the Pilgrim Fathers. …by Huguenot Jo | Nov 5, 2022 | America, Puritanism
A new exhibition at the National Archives in Kew, Treason: People, Power & Plot, opens today. It explores how the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, the establishment of the Church of England, the creation of the United States...by Huguenot Jo | Mar 19, 2022 | Puritanism, The Huguenots
The French Chapel at Canterbury Cathedral caught me by surprise - as the door was unlocked, I felt a surge of emotion. A full account follows shortly, but here’s a photographic taster of the Cathedral and the Chapel within. …