THE HUGUENOTS OF THE WEST END AND SOHO with Robert Nash

In the early 18th century, Soho and the surrounding areas of London were home to a rich cultural mix of various foreign craftsmen who produced an enormous variety of luxury goods for the English aristocracy and the emerging mercantile classes.

Prominent among these were a large number of Huguenot refugees: French Protestants who had fled persecution in their native land. This talk will look at this refugee community and assess its considerable contribution to the artistic and cultural life of the British capital.   

Robert Nash is Secretary of the Huguenot Society of Australia. A descendant of Huguenot silk weavers, Nash was educated at Oxford and Cambridge. He has published numerous historical articles on Australian Huguenot genealogy and descendants