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Book Investigating Gunpowder Plot

Download or read book Investigating Gunpowder Plot written by Mark Nicholls and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book takes a fresh look at the most famous treason case in English history, a complex tale of treachery, suspicion, rebellion and retribution. [The author] shows how, starting with the most slender of leads, the Jacobean government built up a full picture of the conspiracy and tracked down the guilty men and brought them to justice. The story does not end with the bloody executions of Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators in 1606. For the first time in a book on the Gunpowder treason, [the author] investigates in depth the role in the plot played by the ninth earl of Northumberland, seen by many as the plotters' logical choice for a protector of the realm after blast, who was imprisoned in the Tower for sixteen years on suspicion of complicity. By examining the earl's political career in the years around 1605, the author shows how the government investigations, though shedding much light on the plot, never revealed the whole truth. [The author] cuts through the distortions of centuries of political and religious propaganda to explain the real motives of the Gunpowder plotters. [The author] disposes of the 'conspiracy theory, ' which holds that the king's chief minister, Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, framed the conspirators for his own political purposes, and ... sheds considerable light on the workings of early Jacobean government, particularly the privy council. [This book] should appeal to anyone interested in English history, as well as historians and students of seventeenth-century England"--

Book Gunpowder Treason and Plot

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cyril Northcote Parkinson
  • Publisher : George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
  • Release : 1976
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book Gunpowder Treason and Plot written by Cyril Northcote Parkinson and published by George Weidenfeld & Nicholson. This book was released on 1976 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Guy Fawkes   Or  a Complete History of the Gunpowder Treason  A D  1605

Download or read book Guy Fawkes Or a Complete History of the Gunpowder Treason A D 1605 written by Thomas Lathbury and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Guy Fawkes

Download or read book Guy Fawkes written by Thomas Lathbury and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gunpowder  Treason and Plot

Download or read book Gunpowder Treason and Plot written by Lettice Cooper and published by Ipso Books. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author of The New House brings to life the 1605 plot to blow up the House of Lords and assassinate King James I in a vividly imagined novel. “Please to remember, The Fifth of November, Gunpowder, treason and plot.” —Traditional English Rhyme The legend of Guy Fawkes and the infamous Gunpowder Plot is a deeply rooted part of English identity. The fateful events of November 5, 1605 are still celebrated across the country with bonfires, sparklers, and the now-ubiquitous Guy Fawkes mask. But few revelers know the real story behind one of the most infamous conspiracies ever attempted. How did a small band of Catholic conspirators organize such an audacious plot? Were they noble freedom fighters or merely seventeenth century terrorists? In this meticulously researched historical novel, Lettice Cooper conjures the desperation and danger behind one of the most significant events in modern history.

Book Guy Fawkes for Kids

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrew Thompson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-11-04
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 25 pages

Download or read book Guy Fawkes for Kids written by Andrew Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of what happened to make the 5th of November become so famous in English history. Remember, remember! The 5th of November, The Gunpowder treason and plot; There is no reason Why the Gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot! This short story is about Catholic conspirator Guy Fawkes, who was part of the infamous Gunpowder Plot of 1605. It explains the origins of the English 5th of November celebrations with humorous cartoon-style illustrations to bring the story alive.

Book Guy Fawkes  or  The gunpowder treason

Download or read book Guy Fawkes or The gunpowder treason written by William Harrison Ainsworth and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first of William Harrison Ainsworth's seven "Lancashire novels", the story is based on the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, an unsuccessful attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament. Ainsworth relied heavily on historical documents describing the trial and execution of the conspirators, of whom Fawkes was one, but he also embellished the known facts. He invented the character of Viviana Radcliffe, daughter of the prominent Radcliffe family of Ordsall Hall - who becomes Fawkes's wife - and introduced gothic and supernatural elements into the story, such as the ability of the alchemist, John Dee, to raise the spirits of the dead"--From Wikipedia, viewed January 16, 2024.

Book Firefly Classics  Guy Fawkes

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Ainsworth
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-10
  • ISBN : 9781696778633
  • Pages : 408 pages

Download or read book Firefly Classics Guy Fawkes written by William Ainsworth and published by . This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was a failed assassination attempt against King James I by a group of provincial English Catholics led by Robert Catesby.

Book A History of the Gunpowder Plot

Download or read book A History of the Gunpowder Plot written by Philip Sidney and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Guy Fawkes  Or  The Gunpowder Treason

Download or read book Guy Fawkes Or The Gunpowder Treason written by William Harrison Ainsworth and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Faith and Treason

    Book Details:
  • Author : Antonia Fraser
  • Publisher : Anchor
  • Release : 2014-04-30
  • ISBN : 0804152624
  • Pages : 557 pages

Download or read book Faith and Treason written by Antonia Fraser and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In England, November 5 is Guy Fawkes Day, when fireworks displays commemorate the shocking moment in 1605 when government authorities uncovered a secret plan to blow up the House of Parliament--and King James I along with it. A group of English Catholics, seeking to unseat the king and reintroduce Catholicism as the state religion, daringly placed thirty-six barrels of gunpowder in a cellar under the Palace of Westminster. Their aim was to ignite the gunpowder at the opening of the Parliamentary session. Though the charismatic Catholic, Robert Catesby, was the group's leader, it was the devout Guy Fawkes who emerged as its most famous member, as he was the one who was captured and who revealed under torture the names of his fellow plotters. In the aftermath of their arrests, conditions grew worse for English Catholics, as legal penalties against them were stiffened and public sentiment became rabidly intolerant. In a narrative that reads like a gripping detective story, Antonia Fraser has untangled the web of religion, politics, and personalities that surrounded that fateful night of November 5. And, in examining the lengths to which individuals will go for their faith, she finds in this long-ago event a reflection of the religion-inspired terrorism that has produced gunpowder plots of our own time.

Book Guy Fawkes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maureen Appleton
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2016-03-17
  • ISBN : 9781530606658
  • Pages : 64 pages

Download or read book Guy Fawkes written by Maureen Appleton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was a real plot we shall have to judge for ourselves as the tense story unfolds; but it is not to be wondered at that Englishmen felt a shock of horror and of relief from catastrophe on November 5, 1605, or that we still celebrate the deliverance. Men, who were themselves good, in the sense that they were filled with religious zeal, had certainly planned one of the most evil deeds in history. They had planned murder on a mass scale; murder of King and Lords. The aim of this book is to take a familiar event in history and examine the cause and effect so that it no longer stands isolated from its background.

Book Guy Fawkes  Or the Gunpowder Treason  Etc

Download or read book Guy Fawkes Or the Gunpowder Treason Etc written by William Harrison Ainsworth and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Guy Fawkes  or  The gunpowder treason

Download or read book Guy Fawkes or The gunpowder treason written by William Harrison Ainsworth and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Gunpowder Plot

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Travers
  • Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
  • Release : 2019-10-15
  • ISBN : 1445684683
  • Pages : 413 pages

Download or read book The Gunpowder Plot written by James Travers and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Modern Britain's most dramatic story, the Gunpowder Plot, brought to life with unique original sources.

Book Guy Fawkes  or  The Gunpowder Treason  An Historical Romance

Download or read book Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason An Historical Romance written by William Ainsworth and published by Litres. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Guy Fawkes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rev Thomas Lathbury M a
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2015-12-15
  • ISBN : 9781522759898
  • Pages : 90 pages

Download or read book Guy Fawkes written by Rev Thomas Lathbury M a and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was a failed assassination attempt against King James I of England and VI of Scotland by a group of provincial English Catholics led by Robert Catesby. The plan was to blow up the House of Lords during the State Opening of England's Parliament on 5 November 1605, as the prelude to a popular revolt in the Midlands during which James's nine-year-old daughter, Princess Elizabeth, was to be installed as the Catholic head of state. Catesby may have embarked on the scheme after hopes of securing greater religious tolerance under King James had faded, leaving many English Catholics disappointed. His fellow plotters were John Wright, Thomas Wintour, Thomas Percy, Guy Fawkes, Robert Keyes, Thomas Bates, Robert Wintour, Christopher Wright, John Grant, Ambrose Rookwood, Sir Everard Digby and Francis Tresham. Fawkes, who had 10 years of military experience fighting in the Spanish Netherlands in suppression of the Dutch Revolt, was given charge of the explosives.