The Gunpowder Plot:
Filling in the gaps
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Physicists discover Guy Fawkes would have devastated Westminster
www.aber.ac.uk/aberonline/uwa8903.shtml
Press release from the University of Wales at Aberystwyth about Dr Geraint Thomas’s theory.
He who Whispers: Shakespeare and the Gunpowder Plot
www.shakespeares-globe.org/navigation/framesetNS.htm
Information on an exhibition – ‘Find out the facts behind the fireworks’ – being held at the Globe Theatre in London until 25 March 2006.
Gunpowder + Treason: Terrorism in 1605
www.historicroyalpalaces.org/gunpowdertreason/index.html
Information on another exhibition, this time at the Tower of London where Guy Fawkes was tortured, which runs until June 2006.
National Archives: Confession of Guy Fawkes
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/museum/
item.asp?item_id=19&sequence=1
Here you can see both versions of Fawkes’ signatures – one on a confession that he signed shortly after being tortured and a steadier one on a second confession eight days later.
