In 1605, a group of disaffected Catholics plotted to assassinate King James I by blowing up the House of Lords. They hoped to restore Protestant England to Catholicism and end the persecution of their ...

But a local legend, repeated by South Hanningfield Parish Council, is that Guy Fawkes planned the Gunpowder Plot at Fremnells. The now infamous plot saw Fawkes and fellow Catholic conspirators try to ...

EVERYONE knows November 5 marks the day Britain’s first terrorists hatched a plan to blow up the Houses of Parliament in what became known as The Gunpowder Plot. But what do we know about Anne Vaux’s ...

In 1605, a group of British Catholics, including Guy Fawkes and Robert Catesby, devised a plan to blow up the Houses of Parliament. They hoped to wipe out the anti-Catholic political establishment and ...

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Immersive experiences are becoming all the rage following in the footsteps of the likes of Secret Cinema. But instead of entering the world of a movie, The Gunpowder Plot takes its participants deep ...

An historic house owned by the parents of one of the Gunpowder plotters and slept in by Oliver Cromwell is up for sale. The Ducks Nest is one of the oldest properties in the historic market town of ...

The BBC are to air a new drama called Gunpowder this Saturday night, starring Game of Thrones hero, Kit Harrington. The three-part show is a dramatisation of the infamous gunpowder plot to kill King ...

Who was Anne Vaux and how was she involved in the Gunpowder Plot? Anne Vaux was born in 1562 to parents William Vaux, 3rd Baron Vaux of Harrowden and his first wife, Elizabeth. She is looked back on ...

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 have ...

"Remember, remember the 5th of November, gunpowder, treason and plot; for there is a reason why gunpowder and treason should ne'er be forgot." That is how the children's nursery rhyme goes that marks ...