The conspirators in the Roman Catholic Gunpowder plot of 1605 meet in a house at the back of St Clements Church on the Strand, London. Amongst them are Guy Fawkes (1570 - 1606) and ringleader ...

An engraving of the Gunpowder Plot conspirators, with Fawkes depicted third from right Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. Luckily for James and others targeted by the plot, an anonymous ...

An interdisciplinary seminar at the Folger Institute examines terrorism — historical and contemporary — on the 400th anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot When scholars gathered in the basement of ...

The basic story of the failed Gunpowder Plot is a famous one. But although Brits celebrate Bonfire Night with fireworks every year on Nov. 5, the details of that fateful night remain sketchy to many.

Discover what Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators hoped to achieve with the Gunpowder plot. Why did their failed plan taint all English Catholics with treason for centuries to come.

These are the gunpowder plotters, the infamous Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators who, on the 5th of November 1605, tried to blow up a packed parliament in the name of their Catholic faith.

One in six Brits believe the Gunpowder Plot is a fictional story, ... And 26% thought that the conspirator Guy Fawkes acted alone – unaware that he concocted the plot with five co-conspirators.

LONDON — On Guy Fawkes Day, bonfires crackle and leap all over England. Children inveigle passersby for small change, chanting, “Remember, remember, the 5th of November.” Scarecrows stuffed ...

Modern Britain might have been a very different place if the Gunpowder Plot had gone according to plan. But for a month's delay in the opening of parliament, an unprecedented atrocity might well ...

Although the night is named after him, Guy Fawkes wasn't actually the man who set up the failed Gunpowder plot and there's a dark and gory tale behind the true story ...

On Bonfire Night, we look at the sites around the country connected to Guy Fawkes and other conspirators involved in the papist Gunpowder Plot of 1605 ...

Cecil takes his intelligence letter about the Gunpowder Plot to King James I directly. He knows that James will only get involved with the conspiracy if he thinks he’s uncovered it himself.