THE men behind the Gunpowder Plot have gone down in history for their outrageous plan to blow up parliament and kill the king more than 400 years ago. As the BBC retells the story in a new drama ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

On 5 November 1605, a group of ten activists attempted one of the biggest acts of extremism in British history. One of these men was the now infamous Guy Fawkes, who was tasked with guarding the 36 ...

While Game Of Thrones ended its 7th season on Sunday night, Kit Harington fans won’t have to wait too long to see him in action again. BBC One has released first-look images and a teaser (see below) ...

IN his tall hat and well-groomed whiskers, Guy Fawkes does not fit our image of a terrorist. Yet the man who was discovered hiding underneath the House of Lords with 36 barrels of gunpowder on ...

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 ...

The trouble with seeing “Gunpowder” as a truly British series, featuring a mostly British cast and commissioned initially by the BBC, is in its title. Specifically, it is not titled “Gunpowder: The ...

Bonfire night has a well-told history which we are reminded of each year: 'Remember, remember the fifth of November. Gunpowder, treason and plot.' The most notorious member of the 1605 plot was Guy ...