
Gunpowder Plot
Alan Haynes(Author)
The History Press Ltd
Published on 5. October 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-7524-5754-3 (ISBN)
Description
Every child has heard of Guy Fawkes and will most likely have watched a 'guy' being burnt on a bonfire and fireworks lighting up the night sky on Bonfire Night. This book answers the questions of history that lie behind the celebrations of 5 November. Who was Guy Fawkes and how did he come to be below the chamber of the House of Lords in the first hour of 5 November 1605? What desperation drove those involved to plan a horrific massacre of the Protestant royal family and government? Alan Haynes's probing analysis offers the clearest, most balanced view yet of often conflicting evidence, as he disentangles the threads of disharmony, intrigue, betrayal, terror and retribution. In this new, updated edition he gathers together startling evidence to uncover the depth and extent of the plot, and how close the plotters came to de-stabilising the government in one of the most notorious terrorist plots of British history. This enthralling book will grip the general reader, while the scope of its detailed research will require historians of the period to consider again the commanding importance of the plot throughout the seventeenth century.
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Edition
Revised ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Stroud
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 200 mm
Width: 120 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
160 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7524-5754-3 (9780752457543)
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Person
Alan Haynes is a prolific writer on Elizabethan and seventeenth-century history. A member of the Royal Historical Society, his other books include Walsingham, The Elizabethan Secret Services and Sex in Elizabethan England. He lives in Beckenham, Kent.