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GCSE History · key term
Migrants from Flanders in the Low Countries, many of whom brought weaving skills to sixteenth-century England.
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Paper 1
Revise: Case Studies: Sandwich, Canterbury, and HuguenotsIn 1569, an official order restricted the Flemish migrants to fishing and weaving, with significant fines for those who refused to comply. The dispute shows that acceptance could depend on whether local workers saw migrants as useful producers or unwanted competitors.
Paper 1
People from Flanders, a region of the Low Countries whose medieval boundaries differed from those of modern countries.
Revise: Diversity of migrant communitiesDutch and Flemish migrants came from the Low Countries, across the North Sea from England. These labels refer to different regional backgrounds, not one uniform community, and medieval boundaries were different from modern national borders.
Keep the groups and places distinct: Flemish migrants in Sandwich, Walloons in Canterbury and Huguenots in Spitalfields.
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