IT’S easy to remember when Bonfire Night takes place thanks to one catchy rhyme. But what are the lyrics to Remember, Remember The Fifth of November and what is the meaning behind this old-ag… ...

The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, as it became known, was the brainchild of Robert Catesby, a well-to-do gentleman of Warwickshire. Together with Guy Fawkes and three other plotters, ...

Cecil takes his intelligence letter about the Gunpowder Plot to King James I directly. He knows that James will only get involved with the conspiracy if he thinks he’s uncovered it himself.

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 ...

FRANCIS Tresham was almost certainly the man who betrayed the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. As the plan to destroy the Houses of Parliament neared its climax, the authorities received an anonymous tip-of… ...

The basic story of the failed Gunpowder Plot is a famous one. But although Brits celebrate Bonfire Night with fireworks every year on Nov. 5, the details of that fateful night remain sketchy to many.

Many Brits may know the famous chant of “Remember, remember, the 5th of November” – but research has found that as many as one in six (16%) believe the Gunpowder Plot is just a story, and ...

Modern Britain might have been a very different place if the Gunpowder Plot had gone according to plan. But for a month's delay in the opening of parliament, an unprecedented atrocity might well ...

This BBC documentary strains to draw parallels between the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and the events of 9/11.

Southworth, meanwhile, is hunted in the novel for his involvement in the Gunpowder Plot. Captured previously, he had escaped from prison and fled to France, before returning to England to save his ...

Despite Guy Fawkes’ strong association with the Gunpowder Plot, it was actually Robert Catesby who masterminded the plot, reputedly first coming up with the plan in early 1604 and recruiting ...

Plot behind the Gunpowder Plot WHEN a booted and spurred Guy Fawkes was found skulking near Parliament around midnight on November 4th, 1605, he unwittingly… By FRANK MCLYNN ...