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The Gunpowder Plot – Conspiracy or not?
home.clara.net/hetha/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/commons/lib/gunplot.htm
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.
Centre for Fawkesian Pursuits
http://www.bcpl.net/~cbladey/guy/html/
papacy.html#Freedom
Examines the Roman Catholic dimensions of the Gunpowder Plot.
York Dungeon
www.yorkshirenet.co.uk/yorkdungeon/ydinside.html
An exhibition about one of York's most notorious sons, Guy Fawkes.
The Confessions of Guy Fawkes
www.pro.gov.uk/virtualmuseum/maingalleries/
crime/guy%5Ffawkes
Transcript of one of the two confessions the plotter made.
Guildhall Library and Art Gallery
http://collage.nhil.com/collagedev/categories/history.html
Has some 17th-century images of the Gunpowder Plot.
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
Faith and Treason: The story of the Gunpowder Plot by Antonia
Fraser (Anchor, 1997) £10.99
Accessible narrative account of the Gunpowder Plot, which also explains
much about English religious history.
Investigating Gunpowder Plot by Mark Nicholls (Manchester University
Press, 1991) £18 (available only from online booksellers)
Well-researched and fascinating reassessment that considers all of the
theories about the plot.
The Early Stuarts: A political history of England 1603-1642 by
Roger Lockyer (Longman, 2nd ed 1998) £16.99
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.
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 in the Public Record Office, Kew.
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