The Gunpowder Plot by Antonia Fraser5/20/2023 There was an immediate popular recognition that this moment of danger averted was one of major significance. All over the city that night, bonfires were lit that would burn annually down the centuries to celebrate the deliverance of the Protestant nation from Catholic subversion. The most serious attempt at regicide since the beginning of Elizabeth's reign had been foiled Guy Fawkes had been arrested, lantern in hand, fuses in his pocket, in the cellar of Parliament House the other conspirators were in flight, and would soon be rounded up. Gunpowder by Clive Ponting (244 pp, Chatto, £16.99)įour hundred years ago today, London was in turmoil following the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot. God's Secret Agents: Queen Elizabeth's Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plot by Alice Hogge (406pp, HarperCollins, £20) Gunpowder Plots by Brenda Buchanan, David Cannadine, Justin Champion, David Cressy, Pauline Croft, Antonia Fraser and Mike Jay (188pp, Allen Lane, £14.99) Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November: Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot by James Sharpe (230pp, Profile Books, £15.99)
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