£9.9
FREE Shipping

The Real Guy Fawkes

The Real Guy Fawkes

RRP: £99
Price: £9.9
£9.9 FREE Shipping

In stock

We accept the following payment methods

Description

Two laws from the late 17th century, Corporation (1661) and The Test (1673), were repealed in 1828 and allowed for Catholics to have more rights. This book is exciting, informative, and really gives readers a good feel for who the real Guy Fawkes probably was. There was an immediate popular recognition that this moment of danger averted was one of major significance.

In fact, Colonel Alan Brooke Pemberton CVO MBE, initially my handler and later my colleague, once said the best spies don’t know they have been recruited.While today, we may set off fireworks and go to displays, traditionally and in fact right up to my own childhood the day was celebrated with a community bonfire where an effigy of Fawkes himself would be burned. Like Sharpe, she raises the intriguing question of who would have been the real beneficiary if the royal family had been wiped out.

To reinstate the history behind the infamous plot and understand its future relevance, five scholars have constructed and reconstructed those events. Gunpowder Plots covers similar ground to Sharpe's book, with essays exploring the reasons why November the fifth has outlasted all our other national commemorations, including Waterloo Day and Empire Day, looking at the folkloric aspects of the festival, and offering a brief history of fireworks. She has written for the Guardian, Huffington Post and the F-Word blogs, and has worked for various media outlets such as the BBC, Channel 4 and for ITV News/ITN. The Jesuit mission to England and the condition of the Catholics under Elizabeth form the subject of Alice Hogge's book God's Secret Agents. I doubt it would become dry either as Nick Holland has a wonderful writing style – easy to read and personable.Writing in 2003, Stephen Carver claimed that "Although critics are often scathing of this author, Guy Fawkes Book the Second is a reasonable history lesson".



  • Fruugo ID: 258392218-563234582
  • EAN: 764486781913
  • Sold by: Fruugo

Delivery & Returns

Fruugo

Address: UK
All products: Visit Fruugo Shop