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August 21, 2017 Leave a Comment

No Further Need to Fear Coup

Today's installment concludes The Gunpowder Plot,our selection from What the Gunpowder Plot Was by Samuel R. Gardiner published in 1897.If you

August 20, 2017 Leave a Comment

Fawkes Reveals the Plan

First they hired the house at Westminster, of one Ferres, and having his house they sought then to make a mine under the Upper House of

August 16, 2017 Leave a Comment

King Orders Fawkes to be Tortured

If he will not otherwise confess," the King had ended by saying, "the gentler tortures are to be first used unto him.”Continuing The Gunpowder

August 14, 2017 Leave a Comment

Fawkes Collects the Explosives

Though Fawkes kept silence as to the mine, he did not keep silence on the desperate character of the work on which he had been engaged.Continuing

August 13, 2017 Leave a Comment

The Gunpowder Plot

This series has five easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: Guy Fawkes’ Confession.IntroductionIf successful, this plot would have

October 29, 2012 Leave a Comment

Bohemia Revolts

There were tumults, uprisings, and on May 23, 1618, a party of angry citizens of Prague burst into the council hall, seized Slavata and Martinitz, the

October 28, 2012 Leave a Comment

The Thirty Years War

This series has five easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: Focus on Prague.IntroductionThe war combined a great struggle between

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