Xand Van Tulleken and Tracy Borman examine the plot to kill James I by blowing ... dangerous it was to smuggle two and a half tons of gunpowder beneath the House of Lords and show how the ...
In 1605, a group of disaffected Catholics plotted to assassinate King James I by blowing up the House of Lords. They hoped to restore Protestant England to Catholicism and end the persecution of ...
The year 2005 marked the 400 anniversary of the plot with an exhibition The Gunpowder Plot: Parliament and Treason held in Westminster Hall. Are the Houses of Parliament still searched before State ...