Kit Harington will play his ancestor Robert Catesby, the mastermind behind the Gunpowder Plot, in "Gunpowder," an upcoming BBC miniseries.

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.

It was the dynamic conspirator Robert Catesby who, along with Thomas Winter and John Wright, first devised the plot.

Robert Catesby, the mastermind of the Gunpowder Plot, is depicted (second from right) next to Fawkes, along with the other co-conspirators in this 1794 engraving.

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 ...

The plot room, where members of the Gunpowder Plot congregated to conspire against King James 1 in 1605 - Andrew Fox Ashby has come back into the family after 3rd Viscount Wimborne sold the estate ...

The gunpowder plot was the climax of Catholic machinations against the Protestant crown. It came just after the death of Elizabeth I, when the Protestant son of Mary Queen of Scots rode south to ...

All you need to know about the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and why Guy Fawkes and Robert Catesby tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament ...

The Gunpowder Plot grew out of decades of religious war and persecution dating back to Henry VIII’s reign in the early sixteenth century.

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 ...

It was the dynamic conspirator Robert Catesby who, along with Thomas Winter and John Wright, first devised the plot.