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The Yeomen of the Guard ceremonially searching the Palace for explosives before the Sovereign's arrival for State Opening. This tradition, including searching the cellars, stems from the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. © House of Lords 2015/Roger Harris

Gunpowder, sleaze, and (lost the) plot.

Who was Gunpowder’s Robert Catesby? And how is Kit Harington related to him? The Game of Thrones star plays his own ancestor in new BBC drama Gunpowder The RadioTimes by  By   Huw Fullerton 21st October 2017  

Game of Thrones actor Kit Harington confirmed to star in explosive BBC Gunpowder Plot drama   Mark Gatiss, Liv Tyler and Peter Mullan have also signed up for the 17th century thriller The Radio Times By  Eleanor Bley Griffiths Sunday 19 February 2017

  At Westminster in London, Guy Fawkes, a chief conspirator in the plot to blow up the British Parliament building, jumps to his death moments before his execution for treason. On the eve of a general parliamentary session scheduled for November 5, 1605, Sir Thomas Knyvet, a justice of the peace,...

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