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Gunpowder Plot, the conspiracy of English Roman Catholics to blow up Parliament and King James I, his queen, and his eldest son on November 5, 1605. The leader of the plot, Robert Catesby, together with his four coconspirators—Thomas Winter, Thomas Percy, John Wright, and Guy Fawkes—were zealous Roman Catholics angered by James’s refusal to grant more religious toleration to Catholics. They apparently hoped that the confusion that would follow the murder of the king, his ministers, and th...

Norwich company, Curious Spark, is offering people the opportunity to become a medieval super-spy with "an immersive virtual reality (VR) experience".

Gunpowder Plot, conspiracy of English Roman Catholics to blow up Parliament and James I, his queen, and his eldest son on November 5, 1605.

Jonny Wilkes talks to historian Tracy Borman about how the Tudor dynasty could have been cut short and England hurled into a religious civil war

THEY may have resided in England for hundreds of years but the theft of the gold rosary of Mary, Queen of Scots from Arundel Castle at the weekend is a national loss that will be keenly felt by many people in Scotland and beyond. The rosary was rightly in the keeping of the Howard family for it was given to their ancestors by Mary herself in appreciation of their efforts and those of England’s leading Catholics to put their co-religionist on the throne of their country. Indeed Thomas Ho...