Remember, remember the fifth of November : Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot / James Sharpe.
Material type: TextSeries: Profiles in historyPublication details: London : Profile Books, c2005Description: 230 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN: 1861977271; 9781861977878 (pbk.); 1861977875 (pbk.)Subject(s): Fawkes, Guy, 1570-1606 | Gunpowder Plot, 1605DDC classification: 942.061 Summary: 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?Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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?
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