by Huguenot Jo | Nov 8, 2020 | The Huguenots
Joe Biden’s middle name, Robinette, is enough to make any Huguenot researcher’s ears twitch; and, quick as a flash on his victory, Facebook group Huguenot Heritage claimed him. Biden himself has been self-effacing about his ancestry: “It’s my grandmother...
by Huguenot Jo | May 26, 2019 | Blackfriars, The Huguenots
A Protestant-made timepiece was chosen by historian Neil MacGregor to be one of twenty British Museum objects which best illustrate Shakespeare’s life and the background for his plays. The rare musical clock, created by highly-skilled Flemish Protestant refugee...
by Huguenot Jo | Mar 23, 2019 | Book review, Catholicism, Puritanism, The Huguenots
I’ve been sitting in a cancer ward at the Royal Marsden Hospital, desperately relying on a Tudor detective novel to distract me. Nurses are putting cancer drugs into my child and it’s almost impossible to bear. One of them catches …
by Huguenot Jo | Apr 17, 2018 | The Huguenots
Protestant King William III set up the Bank of England in 1694 to fund wars against his Catholic French nemesis – King Louis XIV, the Sun King. The first Governor of the Bank was Sir John Houblon, great-grandson of a …
by Huguenot Jo | Apr 22, 2018 | The Huguenots
I once walked into a Huguenots of Spitalfields Festival event where the name "JC Decaux" alone was projected onto a white screen at the front. In common with everyone else, I thought: “Why do I know that name?” We knew...
