Dr Anne Kershen, Time when England said ‘welcome'

12 June 2015

The term 'refugee' was first applied to the Huguenots as they started to establish themselves in east London from the 16th Century onwards - Dr Anne Kershen tells the story of their arrival in the city in a feature for Church Times. She writes: “The Huguenots were the earliest incomers to make their own religious imprint on the area, and they established a pattern for later migrants.”
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