Gunpowder Guy
Author | : Stewart Ross |
Publisher | : Wayland Pub Limited |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9780750225014 |
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Author | : Stewart Ross |
Publisher | : Wayland Pub Limited |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9780750225014 |
Author | : Andrew Thompson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 25 |
Release | : 2020-11-04 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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.
Author | : Allan Metcalf |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0190669209 |
Had you said "What a guy!" in 17th-century England, anyone would have understood you were admiring a flaming effigy of Guy Fawkes of the Gunpowder Treason Plot. How times have changed! In America and, indeed, most of the English-speaking world, "guy" is so embedded in daily speech that we scarcely notice how odd it truly is: a singular "guy" referring to males only, a plural "guys" encompassing the entire human race. The journey from England's greatest villain to America's favorite second-person plural pronoun offers a story rich with surprising and unprecedented turns. Through his trademark breezy, highly readable style, acclaimed writer Allan Metcalf takes us deep into this history, uncovering the intrigue, murderous plots, and torture out of which the word emerged in 1605. From there, it's a thrilling run through 17th-century England, bloody religious controversies, and across the Atlantic to America, where the word took on a life of its own, exploding into popular culture and day-to-day conversation. From the disappearance of thou, to George Washington and the American Revolution, to the modern revival of Guy Fawkes in V for Vendetta, Metcalf explores the improbable history of a simple word so indispensable to our daily lives, and that evokes deep insights into the evolution of English itself.
Author | : Mark Nicholls |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9780719032257 |
"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"--
Author | : Maureen Appleton |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2016-03-17 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781530606658 |
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.
Author | : Thomas Lathbury |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1839 |
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ISBN | : |
Author | : Harry Turtledove |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2004-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780765346094 |
The launch of an exciting new series of parallel-world adventure from "the modern master of alternate history" (Publishers Weekly)
Author | : Stewart Ross |
Publisher | : Wayland |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2001-02-15 |
Genre | : Gunpowder Plot, 1605 |
ISBN | : 9780750229630 |
Author | : Francis G. Fawkes |
Publisher | : Ernst Klett Sprachen |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783125454712 |
Gebannt verbringt Guy Stunden vor seinem Computer: Dank seiner neuen CD-Rom ist er in das Jahr 1605 zurückversetzt und erfährt von den spannenden Ereignissen, die zu dem Tag führen, der heute noch in England als Guy Fawkes Day gefeiert wird. (Quelle: www.klett.de).
Author | : Jack Kelly |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2009-04-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786739002 |
When Chinese alchemists fashioned the first manmade explosion sometime during the tenth century, no one could have foreseen its full revolutionary potential. Invented to frighten evil spirits rather than fuel guns or bombs-neither of which had been thought of yet-their simple mixture of saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal went on to make the modern world possible. As word of its explosive properties spread from Asia to Europe, from pyrotechnics to battleships, it paved the way for Western exploration, hastened the end of feudalism and the rise of the nation state, and greased the wheels of the Industrial Revolution. With dramatic immediacy, novelist and journalist Jack Kelly conveys both the distant time in which the "devil's distillate" rose to conquer the world, and brings to rousing life the eclectic cast of characters who played a role in its epic story, including Michelangelo, Edward III, Vasco da Gama, Cortez, Guy Fawkes, Alfred Nobel, and E.I. DuPont. A must-read for history fans and military buffs alike, Gunpowder brings together a rich terrain of cultures and technological innovations with authoritative research and swashbuckling style.