The 'Gunpowder Plot' was foiled at the eleventh hour, an event still celebrated annually on 5 November and named for the most famous of the conspirators - Guy Fawkes Night. But who was Guy Fawkes ...

The three-part series tells the story of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in which Robert Catesby (Harington) led a band of conspirators in plotting to assassinate the reigning king of England ...

Everyone knows the story of the "Gunpowder Plot", celebrated every year on ... Unfortunately, one of the conspirators had a fit of conscience, and wrote to Lord Monteagle, a Catholic peer, to ...

I n 1606, less than a year after the Gunpowder Plot, Shakespeare was undoubtedly influenced by Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators in writing Macbeth.However, there are also some intriguing ...

In 1605, a group of Catholic conspirators plotted to assassinate ... They hid kegs full of gunpowder in the cellars beneath the chamber where the king and the rest of the political elite would ...

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