Winter learned of Fawkes’s extensive expertise in explosives and convinced him to join the plot. In May 1604, at the Duck and Drake Inn in London, the five men met and swore an oath of loyalty ...

One of the Gunpowder Plot conspirators, Robert Winter, was Sir William Ingleby’s nephew, and Sir William Ingleby was arrested and charged with treason, but acquitted.

The story of Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot is one of the most famous of all time. But did you know the plot began in Warwickshire? Read the story here.

Malcolm Gaskill, an emeritus professor in early modern history at UEA, wrote in the LRB about his decision to leave academia. His books include Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans and ...

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

Embittered and angry at the government’s policy of repression, his third son, Robert, became the leading figure in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. According to tradition, he met with the conspirators in ...

Guy Fawkes made his penultimate check on the gunpowder on October 30. Lord Monteagle received an anonymous letter on 26 October 26. According to the Natural Archives, it read: ‘God and man hath ...

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However, there is now a prominent sculpture marking the village’s link to the Gunpowder Plot erected in 2013. It depicts the two Welwick brothers, alongside Catesby and Fawkes.

Guy Fawkes is caught by Westminster authorities "Remember, remember the 5th of November, gunpowder, treason and plot; for there is a reason why gunpowder and treason should ne'er be forgot." ...