I found it quite difficult to piece together for myself a simple understanding of the suffering, courage, tenacity of these people our ancestors. Rather than attempt a brief history myself with far less scholarship than many others, I thought it might be helpful to a visitor to these pages to list some links that have moved me to saying, " Let us not forget their  sacrifice and let us honour their memory with equal determination in our own lives".

A good read   Huguenot heritage By Robin D.Gwynn

Website of The Huguenot Society of Great Britain

There is one site I have found which on one page, albeit a long page and with no reference to Canterbury, summarises the history, from Martin Luther in 1517 to the Edict of Toleration in 1787, as one very readable and gripping narrative by the Rev. A. Stapleton.

Further useful references are:
Who were the Huguenots?
An Account of the Life of John Calvin
The Wars of Religion
The Fate of the Huguenots
Louis XIV, Gallicanism and the Protestants
Parallel Timeline History England & France
Huguenot Timeline
Cambridgeshire Huguenots
Genealogy Forum Huguenot Resources
Huguenot Web
French Protestant History Society
See also Letter from Huguenot Society 1966
The temples at Marck and Guines