Guy Fawkes was born in April 1570 in York ... Thirty-six barrels of gunpowder were found stacked in the cellar directly below where the king would have been sitting for the opening of parliament ...

But then they found they could use a room underneath the Houses of Parliament. Plotter: Sounds easier. Let’s do that. Come on, we need to get this first lot of gunpowder to Guy Fawkes.

Guy Fawkes, another of the conspirators ... Not surprisingly, all were found guilty, and all were sentenced to that most medieval of punishments – to be hanged, drawn and quartered.

Although Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot is the most ... a number of literary minds also found inspiration there: John Donne, Ben Jonson and Francis Beaumont are known to have spent time there.