When July used to be sunny people obviously got hot under the collar and demanded revolution! Both the American and French revolutions are celebrated this month on the 4th and 14th respectively.
Citizens: a chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama.
TB 8289 in 2 discs; giant print 3v
The glass-blowers by Daphne du Maurier.
The author's forbears, the Bussons, were glass-blowers before and during the French Revolution, when intrigue and poverty invaded their well-ordered lives.
TB 1219
Scaramouche: a romance of the French revolution by Rafael Sabatini.
When a young cleric is wrongfully killed, his friend, Andre Louis, vows to avenge his death. And so is born Scaramouche - a brave and remarkable hero
Giant print 4v; TB 1829
The rights of man: Part I, 1791 by Thomas Paine.
Edition: Facsimile of 1791.
Thomas Paine published this treatise defending the principles of
freedom in 1791. He fought for independence in America, and was in France during the Revolution.
TB. 408560
Rough crossings: Britain, the slaves and the American Revolution by Simon Schama.
Set against the backdrop of the American Revolution and its aftermath,
the epic struggle for freedom by thousands of slaves who believed that their future as free men and women was bound up with staying British, not becoming American.
Braille 12v; TB16311
The American revolution: a history by Gordon S Wood.
Thirteen insignificant colonies of His Britannic Majesty King George III, three thousand miles from the centres of Western civilization, fought off British rule to become, in fewer than three decades, a huge, spawling, rambunctious republic citizens.
Braille 3v.