In 2014, up to 400,000 French citizens live in London, making it the sixth largest French city. This might be compared with the estimated 10,000 foreigners-or 12% of the total population of 120,000-living in London in 1553: Lien Luu, Immigrants and the Industries of London 1500-1700 (Aldershot, 2005), 107. Beier and Roger Findlay, eds., London 1500-1700: The Making of a Metropolis (London, 1986), 48. The population of London in 1700 is estimated at around 490,000 Roger Finlay and Beatrice Shearer, “Population Growth and Suburban Expansion,” in A.L. Gwynn, “The Number of Huguenot Immigrants in England in the Late Seventeenth Century,” Journal of Historical Geography 9 ( 1983 ): 384-395, here: 393 eadem, “England’s First Refugees,” History Today 35 (1985).
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Then, the first full pronouncement of a rhetoric of “suitability” for English society and of economic utility meant that a refugee community was denied Protestant charity, denied employment, and was directed away from England’s shores.
True vocalization of “England’s first nationalist revolution” of 1688-89 came one generation later in 1709. The shift in popular and political responses to the arrival of refugees in England in 1709 provides a contrast to the charitable welcome extended to migrants a generation before and offers an opportunity to see that views of foreign migrants changed for a combination of reasons. Work on the emergence of a “British” Protestant identity and its relationship with continental Europe, on changing ideas of Englishness and on the campaign for a relaxation in rights of access to the English and colonial labor market are considered. Information (less other data with last aggregated date) on this page was last updated on 7 January 2022, 22:38:19 GMT+8.This article investigates the debates surrounding immigration to England some three hundred years ago and considers why it was that between the 1680s and the 1710s a discernible change occurred in how migrants were treated.
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