Gunpowder Plot
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The Million Eyes II cover is here!
It’s been difficult holding this in. Elsewhen Press sent me the cover for Million Eyes II: The Unraveller last weekend and I’ve been bursting to show people. Well, now I can, and here it is. And I absolutely love it, more than the first one, in fact. Elsewhen Press have done a brilliant job (thank Read more
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Who blew the whistle on the Gunpowder Plot – and why?
Happy Guy Fawkes Night! Once again we’re celebrating the defeat of the Gunpowder Plot on November 5th 1605. But the plot was only defeated because of the ‘Monteagle Letter’, which blew the whistle on the conspiracy. To this day, no one knows who wrote this letter… On 26th October 1605, William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, Read more
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Was the Gunpowder Plot an inside job?
It’s Guy Fawkes Night! But should it be called Guy Fawkes Night? Robert Catesby was behind the Gunpowder Plot, not Guy Fawkes. In fact, there’s a theory that someone else was behind it – Sir Robert Cecil, England’s Secretary of State… Today is the 409th anniversary of the day a Catholic terrorist conspiracy to blow Read more
C.R. Berry 