Author : John Malam
Publisher : Cherrytree Books
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 29,26 MB
Release : 2007-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1842345362
This series explores key dates in history: what happened on the day and the background and consequences of the event. Each title tells the story in a crisp, fast-paced style, and color and black and white photos, map, and timeline support the text. The books are perfect quick-read introductions to the dramatic events, and equally useful as high interest/low reading level books.
Author : John Malam
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,50 MB
Release : 2008
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Author : James Sharpe
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 36,30 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'être 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 : 50,60 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 : Thomas Lathbury
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 14,12 MB
Release : 1839
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Author : Alan Haynes
Publisher : Alan Sutton Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 17,86 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 : Paul West
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 45,58 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811216067
A suspenseful and uniquely literary look into Guy Fawkes and the English Gunpowder Plot of 1605, by one of America's most celebrated writers.
Author : Andrew Thompson
Publisher :
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 29,58 MB
Release : 2020-11-04
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This is the story of what happened to make the 5th of November become so famous in English history. Remember, remember! The 5th of November, The Gunpowder treason and plot; There is no reason Why the Gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot! This short story is about Catholic conspirator Guy Fawkes, who was part of the infamous Gunpowder Plot of 1605. It explains the origins of the English 5th of November celebrations with humorous cartoon-style illustrations to bring the story alive.
Author : Cindy Wright
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 34,8 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 : Mark Nicholls
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 27,5 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780719032257
"This book takes a fresh look at the most famous treason case in English history, a complex tale of treachery, suspicion, rebellion and retribution. [The author] shows how, starting with the most slender of leads, the Jacobean government built up a full picture of the conspiracy and tracked down the guilty men and brought them to justice. The story does not end with the bloody executions of Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators in 1606. For the first time in a book on the Gunpowder treason, [the author] investigates in depth the role in the plot played by the ninth earl of Northumberland, seen by many as the plotters' logical choice for a protector of the realm after blast, who was imprisoned in the Tower for sixteen years on suspicion of complicity. By examining the earl's political career in the years around 1605, the author shows how the government investigations, though shedding much light on the plot, never revealed the whole truth. [The author] cuts through the distortions of centuries of political and religious propaganda to explain the real motives of the Gunpowder plotters. [The author] disposes of the 'conspiracy theory, ' which holds that the king's chief minister, Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, framed the conspirators for his own political purposes, and ... sheds considerable light on the workings of early Jacobean government, particularly the privy council. [This book] should appeal to anyone interested in English history, as well as historians and students of seventeenth-century England"--
