The Catholic conspirator jumped or fell from the gallows on this day in 1606, breaking his neck before the executioner could ...

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 ...

The Gunpowder plot has become a nice, family friendly party night with bonfires and fireworks and an engraving that's safe enough to be shown on the tube. But this is not a safe story. Back in ...

Macbeth takes their incantations to heart ... The line may be a somewhat obscure reference to the Gunpowder Plot that racked ...

The house where the Gunpowder Plot was hatched was the "perfect place" for the conspirators to meet, according to historian and TV presenter Lucy Worsley. For her latest BBC Two series ...

[WAILS] Michael Boyd and Tom Piper talk about their production and how the set design is informed by the period in which Macbeth was written (the Protestant Reformation and the Gunpowder Plot).

I n 1606, less than a year after the Gunpowder Plot, Shakespeare was undoubtedly influenced by Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators in writing Macbeth.However, there are also some intriguing ...

His most recent book is "Unspeakable: Literature and Terrorism from the Gunpowder Plot to 9/11" (Routledge, 2020). Donald Trump, Macbeth and the ruins of the Republican Party Peter C. Herman Bill ...

The Gunpowder Plot has become a nice, family-friendly party night with bonfires and fireworks and an engraving that's safe enough to be shown on the Tube. But this is not a safe story.