• 8 External links. Toggle the table of contents. Gunpowder Plot. ... Not to be confused with Main Plot. For other uses, see Gunpowder Plot (disambiguation).
  • The intent of the series was to reveal, straight up, the Catholic point of the view of the Gunpowder Plot, which even today some reviewers found uncomfortable.
  • The monument records the names of the Gunpowder Plot conspirators, alongside those of the Privy Councillors who conducted their interrogation.
  • The Gunpowder plot is arguable one of the most intriguing political conspiracies and failed assassination attempts in history.
  • The 1605 Gunpowder Plot was a failed attempt by pro-Catholic conspirators to blow up the English Parliament on 5 November and kill King James I of England (r...
  • "remember remember the fifth of the nowember the gunpowder treason and plot i see no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot."
  • If nothing else, the history of the Gunpowder Plot provides a shortcut to understanding a world where people were willing to die, and kill, for their religious faith.
  • Gunpowder Plot, conspiracy of English Roman Catholics to blow up Parliament and James I, his queen, and his eldest son on November 5, 1605.
  • In the climate of fear and paranoia following the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot, Cecil and his supporters were able to pass restrictive anti-Catholic legislation.
  • He issued a plenary indulgence (license to kill) to all who participated in the Gunpowder Plot, and said that they were doing a "holy work most pleasing to God."
  • Robert Catesby was the leader of a group of English Catholics who plotted to assassinate the protestant King James 1 in the failed gunpowder plot.
  • Following the failed Gunpowder Plot, new laws were instituted in England that eliminated the right of Catholics to vote, among other repressive restrictions.
  • This is the traditional story of the Gunpowder Plot. However, in recent years some historians have begun to question this version of events.