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Book now: https://bit.ly/3KsIXRRLayered Reality™ and Historic Royal Palaces present The Gunpowder Plot, a thrilling new immersive experience. May 2022.
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May 23, 2022 · The Gunpowder Plot is a thrilling new immersive experience which takes place in a purpose-designed immersive theatre space in Tower Vaults, at the UNESCO World Heritage Tower of London.
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Step inside history's most daring conspiracy in a thrilling new immersive experience.London, 1605. A city divided.
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- What Is The Background to The Gunpowder Plot?
- Who Planned The Gunpowder Plot?
- How Did The Gunpowder Plot Go Wrong?
- What Happened to The Other Gunpowder Plot Conspirators?
When King Henry VIII took control of the English Church from the Vatican in Rome during the 1530s, he sparked decades of religious tension in England, with Catholics finding themselves repressed by the newly separate Protestant Church of England and later rules (introduced by Queen Elizabeth I) even fining, imprisoning or executing recusants (i.e.,...
Despite Guy Fawkes’ strong association with the Gunpowder Plot, it was actually Robert Catesby who masterminded the plot, reputedly first coming up with the plan in early 1604 and recruiting likeminded people to his cause soon afterwards. Catesby enlisted the likes of swordsman John “Jack” Wright (Luke Neal in the drama), Thomas Percy and his cousi...
Unfortunately for the plotters, on Saturday 26th October a letter found its way to Lord Monteagle, Tresham’s brother-in-law, warning him to stay away from the state opening. The letter read: Monteagle immediately brought the letter to Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury (played by Mark Gatiss in the drama), who eventually showed it to King James. Notin...
Despite popular imagination the story doesn’t end with Fawkes' capture. While Fawkes was being tortured, Catesby and some others of the plotters were riding to the Midlands, raiding Warwick Castle for supplies and collecting weapons. The news had reached them by this point that the assassination attempt had failed, and after receiving little suppor...
Nov 7, 2021 · The Gunpowder Plot opens May 2022 in Tower Vaults at the Tower of London. Tickets go on general sale on 19 November. Register for the presale at gunpowderimmersive.com before 1pm on November...
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Thomas Percy (c. 1560 – 8 November 1605) was a member of the group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. A tall, physically impressive man, little is known of his early life beyond his matriculation in 1579 at the University of Cambridge, and his marriage in 1591 to Martha Wright.
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Watch Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot Mini Documentary. Who was the real mastermind behind the plot, and what caused the conspirators to turn to such extreme measures? Curator Alden Gregory explores the causes and consequences of the Gunpowder Plot in this mini-documentary.
