The Fifth Of November Or The Gunpowder Plot

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Remember, Remember the Fifth of November

Author : James Sharpe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781861977878
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (778 download)

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Download or read book Remember, Remember the Fifth of November written by James Sharpe and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guy Fawkes is amongst the most celebrated figures in English history and Bonfire Night is a remarkably long lived and very English tradition. But why is it that in a modern, multicultural society people still turn out every November to commemorate a planned act of treason and terrorism which was defeated four hundred years ago? Had the Gunpowder Plot succeeded and the Catholics managed to blow up the king, the royal family and Parliament, English history would have been shaped by a terrorist act of unprecedented proportions, shattering in terms of both the damage inflicted and its propaganda value. James Sharpe examines the fateful night of 5 November 1605 and the tangled web of religion and politics which gave rise to the plot. He uncovers how celebration of the event, and of Guy Fawkes, the one gunpowder plotter everyone remembers, has changed over the centuries. Today, although most of the religious connotations have long been ignored, the bonfires remain. The festival created in 1605 by the state and church to commemorate a failed act of Catholic terrorism, now provides an annual raison d'être for the firework industry and an annual source of concern for Britain's cat owners. Every year the crowds gather, the bonfires are lit and the firework displays dazzle again. Interestingly however, the tradition is fast changing and reverting to the pre-Gunpowder Plot festival (now much Americanised) of Halloween.

A Fifth of November

Author : Paul West
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811216067
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book A Fifth of November written by Paul West and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A suspenseful and uniquely literary look into Guy Fawkes and the English Gunpowder Plot of 1605, by one of America's most celebrated writers.

Remember, Remember

Author : J. A. Sharpe
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674019355
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Remember, Remember written by J. A. Sharpe and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bonfire Night, observed annually to memorialize the Gunpowder Plot, is one of England's most festive occasions. Why has the memory of this act of treason and terrorism persisted for 400 years? Sharpe unravels the web of religion and politics that gave rise to the plot, and wittily shows how celebration of that night has changed over the centuries.

V for Vendetta Book & Mask Set

Author : ALAN. MOORE
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1779511736
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (795 download)

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Download or read book V for Vendetta Book & Mask Set written by ALAN. MOORE and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world without political freedom, personal freedom and precious little faith in anything comes a mysterious man in a white porcelain mask who fights political oppressors through terrorism and seemingly absurd acts. It's a gripping tale of the blurred lines between ideological good and evil. The inspiration for the hit 2005 movie starring Natalie Portman and Hugo Weaving, this amazing graphic novel is packaged with a collectable reproduction of the iconic V mask.

Guy Fawkes for Kids

Author : Andrew Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book Guy Fawkes for Kids written by Andrew Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of what happened to make the 5th of November become so famous in English history. Remember, remember! The 5th of November, The Gunpowder treason and plot; There is no reason Why the Gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot! This short story is about Catholic conspirator Guy Fawkes, who was part of the infamous Gunpowder Plot of 1605. It explains the origins of the English 5th of November celebrations with humorous cartoon-style illustrations to bring the story alive.

Guy Fawkes

Author : Maureen Appleton
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781530606658
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Guy Fawkes written by Maureen Appleton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was a real plot we shall have to judge for ourselves as the tense story unfolds; but it is not to be wondered at that Englishmen felt a shock of horror and of relief from catastrophe on November 5, 1605, or that we still celebrate the deliverance. Men, who were themselves good, in the sense that they were filled with religious zeal, had certainly planned one of the most evil deeds in history. They had planned murder on a mass scale; murder of King and Lords. The aim of this book is to take a familiar event in history and examine the cause and effect so that it no longer stands isolated from its background.

The Gunpowder Plot

Author : Antonia Fraser
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0297857932
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (978 download)

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Download or read book The Gunpowder Plot written by Antonia Fraser and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-06-24 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ... With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded the fateful night of 5 November 1605, she unravels the tangled web of religion and politics that spawned the plot. 'An excellent book which unravels the whole story of the plot' Literary Review 'Told with impressive scholarship and panache ... with a sense of pace and tension worthy of a John le Carré novel' Sunday Telegraph

The Life of Guy

Author : Allan A. Metcalf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0190669209
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Guy written by Allan A. Metcalf and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Guy" and "guys" are used so ubiquitously in daily conversation, we scarcely notice them. But both derive from the name of England's greatest terrorist, Guy Fawkes. Acclaimed expert on words Allan Metcalf dives deep into the strange and unprecedented history of America's favorite and most controversial pronoun. Along the way, a cast of characters as interesting as Guy Fawkes himself make an appearance, including kings and queens of England, popes, George Washington, show tunes' crooners, and today's Occupy protesters.

English Folk-rhymes

Author : G. F. Northall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book English Folk-rhymes written by G. F. Northall and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Guy Fawkes; or, The gunpowder treason

Author : William Harrison Ainsworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Guy Fawkes; or, The gunpowder treason written by William Harrison Ainsworth and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Investigating Gunpowder Plot

Author : Mark Nicholls
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719032257
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (322 download)

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Download or read book Investigating Gunpowder Plot written by Mark Nicholls and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book takes a fresh look at the most famous treason case in English history, a complex tale of treachery, suspicion, rebellion and retribution. [The author] shows how, starting with the most slender of leads, the Jacobean government built up a full picture of the conspiracy and tracked down the guilty men and brought them to justice. The story does not end with the bloody executions of Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators in 1606. For the first time in a book on the Gunpowder treason, [the author] investigates in depth the role in the plot played by the ninth earl of Northumberland, seen by many as the plotters' logical choice for a protector of the realm after blast, who was imprisoned in the Tower for sixteen years on suspicion of complicity. By examining the earl's political career in the years around 1605, the author shows how the government investigations, though shedding much light on the plot, never revealed the whole truth. [The author] cuts through the distortions of centuries of political and religious propaganda to explain the real motives of the Gunpowder plotters. [The author] disposes of the 'conspiracy theory, ' which holds that the king's chief minister, Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, framed the conspirators for his own political purposes, and ... sheds considerable light on the workings of early Jacobean government, particularly the privy council. [This book] should appeal to anyone interested in English history, as well as historians and students of seventeenth-century England"--

Gunpowder Treason

Author : Henry Brinton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780718816933
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Gunpowder Treason written by Henry Brinton and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Observatory Mansions

Author : Edward Carey
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030755872X
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Observatory Mansions written by Edward Carey and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-02-24 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Easily the most brilliant fiction I've seen this year -- it proves the potential brilliance of the novel form." -- John Fowles, author of The Magus Observatory Mansions, once the Orme family's magnificent ancestral home set on beautiful grounds, is now a crumbling apartment block stranded on a traffic island, peopled with eccentrics. Thirty-seven-year-old Francis Orme lives in Observatory Mansions with his peculiar parents and a collection of misfits. By day he is a street performer, earning money as "a statue of whiteness" in the park, wearing white gloves to ensure that his skin never touches anything. He steals items for his museum of significant objects (996 in all), not for their monetary value but because they have been loved, often bringing grief to their erstwhile owners. His bedridden mother, Alice, who has created for herself an alternative time frame called "fiction," and his father, Francis, are among the occupants set apart from the rest of the busy city by their histories, their memories, and their relationships with the other seven inhabitants of the flats. Each of the house dwellers has his or her own story, as seen through Francis's eyes, and the careful routine and harmony of the house are shaken when along comes a new resident, the half-blind, vulnerable Anna Tap. She is sympathetic and resourceful, and slowly the desperately lonely residents begin to open up their long-closed hearts. As the delicate balance of Observatory Mansions begins to shift, Francis finds himself having to protect the secrets of his past and the sanctity of his collection, while growing emotionally closer to Anna. Hailed as no less than a tour de force, Observatory Mansions is a debut novel of immense originality--a strangely haunting landscape occupied by compelling and unforgettable characters.

Guy Fawkes : Or, a Complete History of the Gunpowder Treason, A.D. 1605

Author : Thomas Lathbury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Guy Fawkes : Or, a Complete History of the Gunpowder Treason, A.D. 1605 written by Thomas Lathbury and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Devil and Daniel Webster

Author : Stephen Vincent Benet
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822203032
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Devil and Daniel Webster written by Stephen Vincent Benet and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1943-10 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Jabez Stone, young farmer, has just been married, and the guests are dancing at his wedding. But Jabez carries a burden, for he knows that, having sold his soul to the Devil, he must, on the stroke of midnight, deliver it up to him. Shortly before twelve Mr. Scratch, lawyer, enters and the company is thunderstruck. Jabez bids his guests begone; he has made his bargain and will pay the price. His bride, however, stands by him, and so will Daniel Webster, who has come for the festivities. Webster takes the case. But Scratch is a lawyer himself and out-argues the statesman. Webster demands a jury of real Americans, living or dead. Very well, agrees the Devil, he shall have them, and ghosts appear. Webster thunders, but to no avail, and at last realizing Scratch can better him on technical grounds, he changes his tactics and appeals to the ghostly jury, men who have retained some love of country. Rising to the height of his powers, Webster performs the miracle of winning a verdict of Not Guilty.

Foxe's Book of Martyrs

Author : John Foxe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Foxe's Book of Martyrs written by John Foxe and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

God's Traitors

Author : Jessie Childs
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199392358
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book God's Traitors written by Jessie Childs and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the Catholic predicament in Elizabethan England through the eyes of one remarkable family: the Vauxes of Harrowden Hall.