| About the Huguenot Library |
Formed by the amalgamation of the libraries of the French Hospital (1718) and the Huguenot Society (1885) and deposited in 1957, this is a collection of c.6000 books, many periodicals, and a great series of manuscripts, prints and engravings. The important manuscripts include consistory records of half a dozen London Huguenot churches, the records of the Royal Bounty and connected funds, 1686-1876, which contained details of the relief funds distributed to the Huguenot refugees and their descendants. The manuscript collections also include the records of the French Hospital itself and of other Huguenot institutions such as the Westminster French Protestant School, Friendly Societies, and numerous family papers, including the Wagner Pedigrees giving details of about 1000 Huguenot families and extensive genealogical research files. Much of this material may be consulted on microfiche.
A significant number of the printed books are not easily to be found elsewhere. The most notable volumes are two copies of the 1535 first edition of Calvin's French Protestant Bible and other early editions of works by Calvin. There are important biographical works: La France Protestante by the Haag
Brothers, in ten volumes, and the French Protestant Exiles by D.C.A. Agnew, in its three editions. The bulk of the printed book collection covers the whole range of Huguenot studies, from major histories to printed family records, dating from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. There are runs of all the main journals of Huguenot history from other countries, including the only complete set in Britain or Ireland of the Bulletin of the French Protestant Société in Paris. Of particular value is the collection of pamphlets, dating from the late sixteenth century onwards, many of which are very rare. There is also a good 19th century and modern collection of material on the Waldensians of the Piedmont.
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The Huguenot Library is housed within the Special Collections of UCL Library, which has temporarily moved to The National Archive in Kew, Richmond.
NB: This is NOT a postal address - see below for postal address and contact details.
Opening Hours: Tuesday - Wednesday, 9am - 5pm
Readers must make an appointment at least two weeks prior to the date of your proposed visit.
The Huguenot Library catalogue is an integral part of the UCL online catalogue, Explore. Connect to Explore here.
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| Publications and information sources |
The Huguenot Society publishes leaflets setting out primary sources of information and the Library can advise on local resources in Britain and around the world. It can provide lists of libraries where the Society's publications may be consulted in different countries.
The following sources are of primary use for enquiries about Huguenots in North America:
- Baird, Charles Washington, 1828-1887: History of the Huguenot emigration to America. - Baltimore : Regional Pub. Co , 1966 (First published in 1885)
- Filby, P. William: Passenger and immigration lists bibliography, 1538-1900 : being a guide to published lists of arrivals in the United States and Canada / edited by P. William Filby. - Detroit, Mich : Gale Research Co , c1981-
- Gannon, P.S.: Huguenot refugees in the settling of colonial America . - New York, Huguenot Society of America , c1993
Huguenot Societies with which this Society is in formal correspondence include:
- Huguenot Society of America, New York Genealogical and Biographical
Society, 122 East 58th Street, New York, N.Y. 10022
- Huguenot Society of Australia, PO Box 184, Newtown, NSW 2042, Australia
http://members.optushome.com.au/ozhug/term.html
- Huguenot Society of South Carolina, 138 Logan Street, Charleston, S.C.
29401-1941
www.huguenotsociety.org
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- The French Hospital 'La Providence' at Rochester
www.frenchhospital.org.uk
- Huguenot Society
www.huguenotsociety.org.uk
- Huguenot Society Library
www.huguenotsociety.org.uk/library/
- The [United States] National Huguenot Society
www.huguenot.netnation.com/general/
- The German Waldensian Society
www.waldenser.de
Society in formal correspondence:
- Société de l'Histoire du Protestantisme Français http://www.shpf.fr
Links for tracing Huguenots in France:
- Le centre de généalogie, Société de l'Histoire du Protestantisme Français http://www.shpf.fr/page.php?ref=genealogie
- Comité Protestant des Amitiés Françaises à l'Etranger (CPAFE), 47 rue Clichy - 75009 Paris, Tel: 01 48 74 25 72, Email: cpafe@aol.com
For Australasian enquiries, it is suggested that contact should first be
made with the Society of Australian Genealogists, 120 Kent Street, Sydney,
NSW 2000
The following Links for appropriate enquiries in Germany can be made to:
- Homepage of the Deutschen Hugenotten-Geselleschaft in Bad Karlshafen:
www.Hugenotten.de
- Homepage of Die Hugenottenkirche in Berlin:
www.franzoesische-kirche.de
For general UK genealogical resources, recourse should be made to:
- The National Archives, Ruskin Avenue, Kew, Richmond TW9 4DU (www.nationalarchives.gov.uk). Microfilm copies of the original registers of the French Protestant Churches are available at the National Archives, ref. RG 4.
- The Society of Genealogists, 14 Charterhouse Buildings, London EC1M 7BA and Information from the Society of Genealogists is available at: www.origins.net
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There is a considerable amount of unmonitored genealogical information and
information devoted to Huguenot research on the internet and links to these
should be taken with care.
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| Contacting the Huguenot Library |
E-mail: library@huguenotsociety.org.uk
Telephone: 020 7679 2046, or internal ext 32046
Postal address: Huguenot Library, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT
Website: http://www.huguenotsociety.org.uk/library-and-archive.html
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Last modified 25 September 2012
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