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 ...

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 ...

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But it is worth digging into the details. The recent series Gunpowder (BBC – now on Netflix) went some way to telling the true story of the plot. The real ringleader was Robert Catesby.

In the autumn of 1605, a group of young Catholic men gathered in a small panelled room above the timber-framed gatehouse to the manor house at Ashby St Ledgers. They had a plan: to assassinate James I ...

Xand Van Tulleken and historian Tracy Borman uncover the real story behind one of the most infamous episodes in British history, the Gunpowder Plot. Xand Van Tulleken and Tracy Borman explore the ...

Liani the eagle explores the history of Guy Fawkes Night, a celebration of fireworks, bonfires, and autumn traditions.

The circumstantial evidence for this is competing Catesby insisted on carrying on with the plot even after it was blown on October 26th (one of the 12 conspirators was a Judas) the gunpowder ...

Almost 300 years after the Gunpowder Plot, in 1903, the Hon. Ivor Guest, a Conservative, soon-to-be Liberal MP and the future lord-lieutenant of Ireland, came across Ashby St Ledgers. He and his ...