As someone who grew up in the last days of the British Empire, I am often asked how it was that so few people controlled so much of the world ...

Sir Walter Raleigh was the greatest adventurer of the Elizabethan Age, but when his fortunes changed he made a fatal mistake ...

Setting aside the Gunpowder Plot, James’ life began with an assassination ... emendations during the writing of what we call the King James Version of the Bible. Even while writing with enviable ...

A co-conspirator in the infamous Gunpowder Plot, Fawkes was born in 1570 in ... the leaders of a small group of men who detested England’s new king, James I, for his discrimination toward ...

because the Gunpowder Plot took place two years after the death of Elizabeth. In 1603, King James VI of Scotland became King James I of England. ♪ Catholics like Robert Catesby could find ...

Test your knowledge of the Gunpowder Plot with this interactive ... In 1605, a group of Catholic conspirators plotted to assassinate King James I of England (and VI of Scotland) by blowing up ...

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 ...

Credit: Ashmolean Museum / University of Oxford Fawkes and his conspirators had planned the infamous 'Gunpowder Plot' to blow up the chamber and kill the Protestant King James I. They had planned ...

A SHOCKING docu-drama shows Guy Fawkes was merely a minor player in a wider plot to assassinate King James I ... icism as England’s true religion. Gunpowder Siege on Sky History dramatically ...

Premium docs specialist Lightbox is moving into drama with Gunpower Siege, a scripted series for Sky History in the UK that promises to reveal the gripping truth behind the Gunpowder Plot.

Inspired by events that culminated in the Scottish village of Culloden in April of 1746, the famous lyric from the mournful Loch Lomond Song "you take the high road," has become the vernacular for ...

On November 5, 1605, Guy Fawkes and his band of Catholic plotters attempted to to assassinate King James I during the opening of Parliament by blowing it up using gunpowder. Fawkes was caught in ...