Gunpowder Plot: References & Edit History
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Excellent accounts of the plot include Mark Nicholls, Investigating Gunpowder Plot (1991); and Antonia Fraser, The Gunpowder Plot: Terror & Faith in 1605 (1996).
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Article History
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| Invalidated site: Independent - Why is Bonfire Night celebrated? Guy Fawkes? Gunpowder Plot explained. | Sep 23, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: The History Files - Story of the Gunpowder Plot. | Jan 31, 2026 | ||
| Top Question added. | Nov 03, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: CORE - Milton, the Gunpowder Plot, and the Mythography of Terror (PDF). | Sep 12, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: ABC listen - Nightlife - This Week in History: The Gunpowder Plot. | Aug 01, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Royal Museums Greenwich - Gunpowder Plot: what is the history behind Bonfire Night? | Jun 07, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Scholar Works at Harding - God, Man, and Thirty-Six Barrels of Gunpowder: A Historiographical Analysis of the Gunpowder Plot (PDF). | Apr 24, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Mar 14, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Heritage History - What Gunpowder Plot Was (1605). | Feb 26, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Independent - Why is Bonfire Night celebrated? Guy Fawkes? Gunpowder Plot explained. | Nov 19, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The History of London - The Gunpowder Plot. | Sep 23, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The National Archives - Gunpowder Plot. | May 20, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Journal for MultiMedia History - University at Albany - The Gunpowder Plot of 1605. | Aug 28, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: University at Albany - Journal for MultiMedia History - The Gunpowder Plot of 1605. | Jul 07, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Historic Royal Palaces - Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot. | May 10, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - Gunpowder Plot. | Feb 15, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: History Today - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Toleration. | Nov 24, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - Gunpowder Plot. | Aug 31, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Houston - Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Gunpowder Plot. | Jul 13, 2022 | ||
| Article thoroughly revised. | Oct 26, 2017 | ||
| Media added. | Oct 19, 2017 | ||
| Media added. | Jul 29, 2016 | ||
| Added photograph. | Nov 03, 2010 | ||
| Changed number of barrels of gunpowder (from "at least 20" to "36"). Revised discussion of Tresham's involvement in warning Monteagle. | Nov 03, 2010 | ||
| Media added. | Aug 27, 2010 | ||
| Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - History - Gunpowder Plot. | Jun 23, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: History Learning Site - The Gunpowder Plot of 1605. | Jun 23, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: University of Wisconsin-Madison - The Gunpowder Plot. | Jun 23, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: The Classics Pages - The Gunpowder Plot. | Jun 23, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: Spartacus Educational - The Gunpowder Plot. | Apr 30, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: The Gunpowder Plot - Parliament & Treason, 1605. | Aug 09, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: The Catholic Encyclopedia - The Gunpowder Plot. | Aug 09, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: BBC - History - The Gunpowder Plot. | Aug 09, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: UK Parliament - The Gunpowder Plot. | Aug 09, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Guy Fawkes and Bonfire Night. | Jul 19, 2006 | ||
| Article revised. | Mar 16, 2006 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | May 04, 1999 |
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