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Sir Walter Raleigh was the greatest adventurer of the Elizabethan Age, but when his fortunes changed he made a fatal mistake ...
A historic country house with links to the Gunpowder Plot will no longer be managed by the National Trust. Coughton Court near Alcester will once again be run by the Throckmorton family instead ...
To create this episode, researchers, writers and the production team managed to distil the complex history of the religious schisms which led up to the gunpowder plot into an accessible narrative ...
Guy Fawkes was sentenced to death for his role in the Gunpowder Plot, a conspiracy to kill James I of England, members of the royal family and government officials. Public domain via Wikimedia ...
This book contains the first written record of ... and although Guy has today become the face of the Gunpowder Plot, it wasn't his idea. To understand what drove this plan for radical violence ...
What pushed Guy Fawkes over the edge? What pushed Guy Fawkes over the edge? What turned him from a radical who wanted change to an extremist willing to kill? Foreign correspondent Jason Burke has ...
We were particularly interested in the Alice in Wonderland VR game, which includes characters from the iconic book. In the Alice ... orchestrated the failed Gunpowder Plot - 1605.
A rare copy of a speech given to Parliament by King James I just days after the Gunpowder Plot was foiled has been unearthed by a book collector. The first edition book discovered by Andrew Wright ...
The death of Robert Catesby after the Gunpowder Plot conspirators' last stand against the royal authorities at Holbeche House. A wood engraving from an 1832 American edition of John Foxe's 'Book ...
A SHOCKING docu-drama shows Guy Fawkes was merely a minor player in a wider plot to assassinate King James I. Conspirators planned to blow up Parliament at its opening on Novem-ber 5, 1605, re ...
The Gunpowder Plot Experience was like entering a time machine set to 1605 and getting a chance to better understand the motivations and concerns of the people in England. From the moment I ...