Kit Harington will play his ancestor Robert Catesby, the mastermind behind the Gunpowder Plot, in "Gunpowder," an upcoming BBC miniseries. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now.

Who was involved in the famous Gunpowder Plot? Guy Fawkes was just one of 13 conspirators. Find out more about the other 12 gunpowder plotters here. ... Robert, the elder Winter brother, ...

To begin to understand the reasons why the Gunpowder Plot has reverberated so strongly down the ... It was the dynamic conspirator Robert Catesby who, along with Thomas Winter and John Wright, ...

Following the Gunpowder Plot in 1605, Parliament decreed November 5 a day of thanksgiving, which came to be known as Guy Fawkes Night. In the 1600s, Fawkes became a stand-in for the Catholic ...

She said working on the programme, The Gunpowder Plot, allowed her to see the events "through 21st Century eyes". 1573 - Robert Catesby is born 1603 - Thomas Percy visits Catesby at Ashby St Ledgers ...

An interdisciplinary seminar at the Folger Institute examines terrorism — historical and contemporary — on the 400th anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot When scholars gathered in the basement of ...

Robert Catesby: Initiator of the Gunpowder Plot. He fled after the scheme unraveled and was killed by government troops. Father Henry Garnet: A Jesuit hanged for his alleged part in the plot.

The Gunpowder Plot made headlines at the time Credit: Getty Then on the 26th October, just over a week before the opening of parliament on 5th November, one of the conspirators cracked.

IN November 1605, Britain’s first terrorists hatched a plan to blow up King James I along with the Prince of Wales and the Houses of Parliament in what became known as The Gunpowder Plot. Led by ...

The death of Robert Catesby after the Gunpowder Plot conspirators' last stand against the royal authorities. A wood engraving from an 1832 American edition of John Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs.' The ...

To begin to understand the reasons why the Gunpowder Plot has reverberated so strongly down the ... It was the dynamic conspirator Robert Catesby who, along with Thomas Winter and John Wright, ...