French Revolution 1789-94: Mainstream Edition

by Martyn Whittock

The French Revolution is an essential and unique resource for teaching and learning about the issues and events that characterise France before and after revolution. It never lets go of the period's story, providing innovative and exciting opportunities to examine the Big Picture and Investigate particular topics. Discover how Louis XVI's brother tried to stop the revolutionaries from meeting by booking the hall they were using for a game of tennis, why London jewellers had to employ a thousand workers to cope with the amount of jewels sold by escaping French aristocrats and how Danton advised the executioner to hold up his guillotined head as the crowd that had gathered to see his execution would find it was well worth seeing!

48 pages, Paperback

First published June 30, 2002

About the author

I graduated in Politics from Bristol University in 1980, where my degree special studies were in radical Christian politics and theology of the seventeenth century & also the development of the Soviet State.
I taught history for thirty-five years (as Head of History & Director of Humanities Faculty at a number of secondary schools in the UK). Latterly I was curriculum leader for Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural education at a secondary comprehensive school in the UK. During this time I developed an interest in early medieval history (especially Anglo-Saxons and Vikings), as well as continuing my interests in radical Christian millenarianism and also Soviet history.
I have acted as an historical consultant to the National Trust, the BBC and English Heritage. I am a Licensed Lay Minister, in the Church of England, with an active interest in theology.
I retired from teaching in 2016 to devote more time to writing, historical & political commenting & guest blogging.
I am the author or co-author of fifty-three books. These include school history textbooks and adult history books. The latter are written with the aim of making historical themes both engaging and accessible to adult readers.