The Bard churned out King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra as London reeled from the foiled Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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