In 1605, a group of British Catholics, including Guy Fawkes and Robert Catesby, devised a plan to blow up the Houses of Parliament. They hoped to wipe out the anti-Catholic political establishment and ...

Every year Guy Fawkes Night is celebrated on November 5 by burning a guy on a bonfire and setting off fireworks, to mark the failed Gunpowder plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament and assassinate ...

The Gunpowder Plot is still marked each year but many of its Yorkshire connections have been lost in the mists of time. But ...

While Game Of Thrones ended its 7th season on Sunday night, Kit Harington fans won’t have to wait too long to see him in action again. BBC One has released first-look images and a teaser (see below) ...

On 5 November 1605, a group of ten activists attempted one of the biggest acts of extremism in British history. One of these men was the now infamous Guy Fawkes, who was tasked with guarding the 36 ...

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 their ...

The trouble with seeing “Gunpowder” as a truly British series, featuring a mostly British cast and commissioned initially by the BBC, is in its title. Specifically, it is not titled “Gunpowder: The ...