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The Gunpowder Plot made headlines at the time Credit: Getty. Then on the 26th October, just over a week before the opening of parliament on 5th November, one of the conspirators cracked.

Robert Catesby led the plot. Fawkes was one of 13 plotters, brought in as an explosives expert to look after and light the 36 barrels of gunpowder in the cellar they had rented underneath the ...

The Gunpowder plot has become a nice, family friendly party night with bonfires and fireworks and an engraving that's safe enough to be shown on the tube. But this is not a safe story.

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 ...

Almost 300 years after the Gunpowder Plot, in 1903, the Hon. Ivor Guest, a Conservative, soon-to-be Liberal MP and the future lord-lieutenant of Ireland, came across Ashby St Ledgers.

The Gunpowder Plot’s ringleader, Robert Catesby, and his Catholic co-conspirators tried to hide there after Guy Fawkes, 35, was caught preparing to destroy the palace of Westminster in a bid to ...

Its first drama aims to shatter myths around the Gunpowder Plot, one of the most infamous moments in British history and when, in 1605, ...

Unused and filthy, it was considered an ideal hiding place for the gunpowder the plotters planned to store. According to Fawkes, 20 barrels of gunpowder were brought in at first, followed by 16 ...

Of those who don't believe the Gunpowder Plot was real, one in four assumed it was a fairy-tale – while 45% just thought the plot was the source material for the 2005 film, V for Vendetta.