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Fawkes became synonymous with the Gunpowder Plot, the failure of which has been commemorated in the United Kingdom since 5 November 1605. His effigy is traditionally burned on a bonfire, commonly accompanied by a firework display.
Author : Cindy Wright
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 47,82 MB
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1291070338
Fawkes became synonymous with the Gunpowder Plot, the failure of which has been commemorated in the United Kingdom since 5 November 1605. His effigy is traditionally burned on a bonfire, commonly accompanied by a firework display.
Author : Antonia Fraser
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,25 MB
Release : 2005-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0141909331
400 years ago this November the most ambitious and extraordinary plot ever conceived in this country came close to success: the attempt by Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators to destroy in a single, annihilating blast the entire British ruling class and royal family. This book draws on the expertise of different writers to bring to life the immense implications of the Plot and the strange way they have echoed down to us over four centuries in what remains the quintessential English festival. Pauline Croft writes about the amazing plot itself and the anxious, unstable world of Jacobean Britain, Antonia Fraser imagines a world in which the plot had succeeded, Justin Champion dramatizes the national emergency that followed the plot's discovery and its savage anti-Catholicism, David Cressy traces how Bonfire Night has been celebrated since its inception as a holiday, Mike Jay focuses on the most famous and enduring rituals held each year at Lewes and Brenda Buchanan offers a wonderful history of fireworks in Britain.
Author : James Sharpe
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,43 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9781861977878
Guy Fawkes is amongst the most celebrated figures in English history and Bonfire Night is a remarkably long lived and very English tradition. But why is it that in a modern, multicultural society people still turn out every November to commemorate a planned act of treason and terrorism which was defeated four hundred years ago? Had the Gunpowder Plot succeeded and the Catholics managed to blow up the king, the royal family and Parliament, English history would have been shaped by a terrorist act of unprecedented proportions, shattering in terms of both the damage inflicted and its propaganda value. James Sharpe examines the fateful night of 5 November 1605 and the tangled web of religion and politics which gave rise to the plot. He uncovers how celebration of the event, and of Guy Fawkes, the one gunpowder plotter everyone remembers, has changed over the centuries. Today, although most of the religious connotations have long been ignored, the bonfires remain. The festival created in 1605 by the state and church to commemorate a failed act of Catholic terrorism, now provides an annual raison d'ĂȘtre for the firework industry and an annual source of concern for Britain's cat owners. Every year the crowds gather, the bonfires are lit and the firework displays dazzle again. Interestingly however, the tradition is fast changing and reverting to the pre-Gunpowder Plot festival (now much Americanised) of Halloween.
Author : J. A. Sharpe
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 15,70 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674019355
Bonfire Night, observed annually to memorialize the Gunpowder Plot, is one of England's most festive occasions. Why has the memory of this act of treason and terrorism persisted for 400 years? Sharpe unravels the web of religion and politics that gave rise to the plot, and wittily shows how celebration of that night has changed over the centuries.
Author : Alan Haynes
Publisher : Alan Sutton Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,21 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN :
Alan Haynes uncovers the truth about this Catholic conspiracy. His probing analysis offers the clearest, most balanced view yet of often conflicting evidence, as he disentangles the threads of disharmony, intrigue, betrayal, terror and retribution.
Author : Conrad Jay Bladey
Publisher :
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 21,19 MB
Release : 2013-07-14
Category : Gunpowder Plot, 1605
ISBN : 9780985448639
A complete compilation of English literature referencing Guy Fawkes, The Gunpowder Plot, Guy Fawkes Day Celebrations and the Great Deliverance of 1605
Author : J. A. Sharpe
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,8 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Gunpowder Plot, 1605
ISBN :
Author : Conrad Bladey
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 22,98 MB
Release : 2020-09-18
Category :
ISBN : 9781735287522
An anthropological study of the history and evolution of the celebration of the Great Deliverance from the Gunpowder Plot of 1605: Guy Fawkes Day, Bonfire Night in North America, Pope's Day/Evening. Includes an analysis of Pope day (night) the celebration. Many primary sources personal accounts and illustrations.
Author : Conrad Jay Bladey
Publisher :
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 28,59 MB
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : Gunpowder Plot, 1605
ISBN : 9780985448653
An analysis of commentary and drama related to the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and the celebration of the Great Deliverance. A comprehensive anthology of criticism "secular sermons" and Dramatic works.
Author : Conrad Jay Bladey
Publisher :
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 22,42 MB
Release : 2015-09-30
Category :
ISBN : 9780985448684
An anthropological study of the history and evolution of the artifacts of celebration used to construct and sustain celebrations of the Great Deliverance from the Gunpowder Plot of 1605: Guy Fawkes Day, Bonfire Night. Includes an analysis of the effigy tradition, and origins of the Guy Fawkes Mask. Other topics include: processions, fireworks, bonfires, music and recipes.