The Gunpowder Plot is commonly said to be the first modern terrorist operation, and the most terrible in English history. But was it?
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  1. Muzer says

    Bonfire night is definitely one of the weirder English traditions. Though as a kid it was the sparklers and fireworks that interested me more that the Guy burning in effigy. And yeah, we learnt all about what you’re presumably about to say in secondary school history class – or at least, we did in my school (though my memory of the details now is pretty hazy).

  2. Ryan says

    Remember Remember,

    the Fifth of November,

    the gun power treason and plot.

    I see no reason

    why the gun powder treason

    Should ever be forgot.

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