Remember, remember the fifth of November : Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot / Gunpowder Plot, 1605.
Sharpe, James.
Remember, remember the fifth of November : Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot / James Sharpe. - London : Profile Books, c2005. - 230 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. - Profiles in history. .
Includes index.
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?
1861977271 9781861977878 (pbk.) 1861977875 (pbk.)
Fawkes, Guy, 1570-1606.
Gunpowder Plot, 1605.
942.061
Remember, remember the fifth of November : Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot / James Sharpe. - London : Profile Books, c2005. - 230 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. - Profiles in history. .
Includes index.
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?
1861977271 9781861977878 (pbk.) 1861977875 (pbk.)
Fawkes, Guy, 1570-1606.
Gunpowder Plot, 1605.
942.061