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Websites
The Gunpowder Plot – Conspiracy or not?
www.historyonthenet.com/Stuarts/gunpowder_plot.htm
Has an analysis of the conflicting theories about who was behind the plot.
The Gunpowder Plot: Frequently asked questions
www.parliament.uk/faq/gunpowder_plot.cfm#gun1
All you want to know, from the House of Commons Information Office.
The Gunpowder Plotters in Warwickshire
www.coventry.org.uk/heritage2/people/gunpowderplot/
Background on the plotters' power base in the Midlands.
Gunpowder Plot Society
www.gunpowder-plot.org/
This website has excellent links to journals, libraries and general
information on the 17th century, especially the plight of Catholics.
Center for Fawkesian Pursuits
http://www.bcpl.net/~cbladey/guy/html/
papacy.html#Freedom
Examines
the Roman Catholic dimensions of the Gunpowder Plot.
The Confession of Guy Fawkes
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/museum/
item.asp?item_id=19
Transcript of one of the two confessions the plotter made.
The Execution of Guy Fawkes
www.adelpha.com/~davidco/History/fawkes1.htm
Reproduction of The Weekely Newes of
31 January 1606 containing ‘the
Arraignment and Execution of the eight traytors’.
The Gunpowder Plot: Filling in the gaps
www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/
history/e-h/gunpowder.html
Historical novelist Christie Dickason shows how the story of the plot isn’t
as straightforward as we might have been led to believe.
Books
The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and faith in 1605 by Antonia Fraser
(Phoenix, 2002)
Accessible narrative account of the Gunpowder Plot, which also explains much
about English religious history.
Get this book
 The Early Stuarts: A political history of England 1603-1642 by
Roger Lockyer (Longman, 2nd ed 1998)
The reigns of James I and Charles I have been intensively studied in modern
times and continue to be the subject of heated debate. This survey's great
strength is that it goes back to the primary sources to understand, and animate,
the central issues of the times.
Get this book
The Desperate Remedy: Henry Gresham and the Gunpowder Plot by
Martin Stephen (Time Warner, 2002)
Historical novel starring Henry Gresham, gentleman, scholar, courtier and spy,
who is hired by Sir Robert Cecil to spy on Francis Bacon and then uncovers
the plot of a Catholic uprising and a trail of gunpowder leading to the Houses
of Parliament.
Get this book
Miscellaneous
• For those fascinated by the fate of Guy Fawkes, a collection
of instruments of torture used in the early 17th century is housed in
the Tower of London.
• The lantern with which Guy Fawkes planned to kindle the gunpowder
and wood stored under the Houses of Parliament can be seen in the Ashmolean
Museum, Oxford.
• The Monteagle Letter is kept at the National
Archives, Kew (formerly the Public Record Office).
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