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Gunpowder plot
A Dictionary of British History
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Gunpowder plot, 1605. Soon after becoming king of England in 1603, James I relaxed the penal laws which subjected catholics to fines, imprisonment, and even death. However, the ensuing uproar in Parliament persuaded him to backtrack, leaving the catholics feeling betrayed. A band of young catholic hotheads decided to seize the initiative by destroying the entire English government. They smuggled barrels of gunpowder into the cellars of Parliament, and Guy
Fawkes stood ready to ignite these on 5 November 1605, when the king, Lords, and Commons were assembled. The plot was betrayed, however, and the conspirators captured, tried, and executed. It etched itself upon the collective English memory, and bonfires and ‘burning the guy’ have remained traditional features of Bonfire Night celebrations.
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Remember, remember; The Gunpowder Plot.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 11/5/2005; 700+ words
; ...subject of "Gunpowder Plots", a book of essays...mentions that the gunpowder recovered from Parliament...moist. Perhaps the plot that Britons have...the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plot. By Alice Hogge. Gunpowder Plots: A Celebration of...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Gunpowder, treason and Catholic plot; According to television historian Dr David Starkey, a 'velvet persecution' paved the way for the Gunpowder Plot. He spoke to Campbell Docherty about the role of a Warwickshire stately home at the heart of the conspiracy.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 4/23/2005; 700+ words
; ...something like a tonne of gunpowder under Parliament. If...focus heavily on the Gunpowder Plot, added: 'The ambition...unique. 'There were plots in Elizabeth's reign...was a successor, the plots were exclusively aimed...obvious successor so the plot was, essentially...campaigns, ...
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Gunpowder Plots.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 6/22/2006; 553 words
; Gunpowder Plots. Brenda Buchanan et al. Allen Lane. [pounds sterling]14.99. ix + 188 pages. ISBN 0-713-99886-5. Remember, remember...
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Remember, remember, the fifth of November: David Prior of the Parliamentary Archives explains why we should be thinking about the Gunpowder Plot unseasonably early, this year.(FRONTLINE)(The Gunpowder Plot: Parliament and Treason 1605)(exhibition)(historical tourist trail, The Gunpowder Trail)
Magazine article from: History Today; 7/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...400th anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot, when Guy Fawkes and...Four centuries on, the Plot remains a difficult subject...London to mark 'Gunpowder Plot 400'. Westminster Hall...where Fawkes piled his gunpowder, the site of his
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Catholic plot and today's terrorism; It may be 400 years since the Gunpowder Plot was hatched in the Midlands but the events bear a startling parallel to today's terrorist activities, as Sarah Probert discovers.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 3/23/2005; 700+ words
; ...was an audacious plot. A few fundamentalists...terrorism that the Gunpowder Plot would have been...the outcome of the plot and heard they were...Starkey will launch the Gunpowder Plot anniversary...coughtoncourt.co.uk The Plot With James I having...get 36 barrels of ...
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`Gunpowder, Treason and Plot' (Cont'd.)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/22/1991; 653 words
; ...was believed to have set up the Gunpowder Plot to blow up Parliament in order...asserts that Guy Fawkes Day and the Gunpowder Plot, which it memorializes...a Catholic convert and that the Gunpowder Plot was "in revenge for penal...
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Plotting as Subversion: Narrative and the Gunpowder Plot
Magazine article from: Journal of Narrative Theory : JNT; 10/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...two planes - on the one side plot is the "organizing line...space of another discussion of plots and plotting, one which is...just as elusive: namely the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. In this I follow...sense in connection with the Gunpowder Plot of 5th Nov. 1605-8...
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Plotting as subversion: narrative and the gunpowder plot.(Essay)
Magazine article from: Journal of Narrative Theory; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...planes--on the one side plot is the "organizing line...space of another discussion of plots and plotting, one which is...just as elusive: namely the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. In this I follow...sense in connection with the Gunpowder Plot of 5th Nov. 1605-8...
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The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 4/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...which began with the Lopez plot of 1594, which no one takes seriously, and the Squire plot of 1598, aimed at the Jesuits...about it.The Main and Bye plots were rather better contrived...imprint of the master.The gunpowder plot,"Cecil's holiday" as...
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 "Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)")
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Reality behind gunpowder plot.(News)
Newspaper article from: Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England); 11/4/2005; 700+ words
; ...comrades rolled 36 barrels of gunpowder into the cellars of the Houses...the royal family. But the plot was foiled after one of Guy...modern day terminology, the Gunpowder Plotters were classic terrorists...really kept the memory of the Gunpowder Plot alive for years. After...
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Gunpowder Plot
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Gunpowder Plot conspiracy to blow up the English Parliament...House of Lords, in which 36 barrels of gunpowder, overlaid with iron bars and firewood...Bibliography: See J. Gerard, What Was the Gunpowder Plot? (2d ed. 1897); S. R. Gardiner...
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Gunpowder plot
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Gunpowder plot, 1605. Soon after becoming king of England...government. They smuggled barrels of gunpowder into the cellars of Parliament, and Guy...for the opening of the new session. The plot was betrayed, however, and the conspirators...
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gunpowder
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
...1620) said of ‘printing, gunpowder, and the mariner's needle [the...great elements of modern civilization, Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion.’ Gunpowder Plot a conspiracy by a small group of Catholic...
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Fawkes, Guy
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...notorious terrorist acts. The Gunpowder Plot, also known as the Powder Treason...Fawkes was not the originator of the Gunpowder Plot. He was a traveling soldier...Mixed Religious Background The Gunpowder Plot was a chapter in the long...
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Conspiracy
Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary
...x2013; 1606) leader of Gunpowder Plot to blow up Houses of Parliament...Hist.: EB, IV: 70, 801] Gunpowder Plot See Fawkes, Guy . Joseph...Jameson, 398] Shallum plots and successfully executes overthrow...confined to an insane asylum in a plot to obtain her money. [Br...
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