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The Huguenots of Spitalfields: How French Refugees Changed London Forever

Walk down Fournier Street in Spitalfields and you will find one of London’s most remarkable migration stories. The Huguenots — French Protestant refugees who arrived after 1685 — built a silk weaving community that changed East London forever. Here is their story, and how to trace Huguenot ancestry today.

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