During Advent, as we choose our Christmas cards, or the font and illustrations for a homemade electronic version, it is fitting to examine the life and work of Esther Inglis, a Huguenot scribe whose creative virtuosity stunned her peers over 400 years ago. Barbara Julien, Blog Editor, examines her impact....

The eminent Huguenot physician Theodore de Mayerne stands out as one of the foremost doctors of the early modern period in Europe. Here fellow Joyce Hampton explores his career in England, the role he played within the medical sciences in his country of adoption, and his legacy among the physicians who followed him - in particular his nephew and great-nephew, Sir John and Sir Theodore Colladon....