Remember Remember The Fifth Of November

Author : James Sharpe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781861977878
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remember, Remember the Fifth of November written by James Sharpe and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guy Fawkes is amongst the most celebrated figures in English history and Bonfire Night is a remarkably long lived and very English tradition. But why is it that in a modern, multicultural society people still turn out every November to commemorate a planned act of treason and terrorism which was defeated four hundred years ago? Had the Gunpowder Plot succeeded and the Catholics managed to blow up the king, the royal family and Parliament, English history would have been shaped by a terrorist act of unprecedented proportions, shattering in terms of both the damage inflicted and its propaganda value. James Sharpe examines the fateful night of 5 November 1605 and the tangled web of religion and politics which gave rise to the plot. He uncovers how celebration of the event, and of Guy Fawkes, the one gunpowder plotter everyone remembers, has changed over the centuries. Today, although most of the religious connotations have long been ignored, the bonfires remain. The festival created in 1605 by the state and church to commemorate a failed act of Catholic terrorism, now provides an annual raison d'être for the firework industry and an annual source of concern for Britain's cat owners. Every year the crowds gather, the bonfires are lit and the firework displays dazzle again. Interestingly however, the tradition is fast changing and reverting to the pre-Gunpowder Plot festival (now much Americanised) of Halloween.

Author : Judy Parkinson
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN 13 : 1843174359
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remember, Remember (The Fifth of November) written by Judy Parkinson and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2009-10-10 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bestseller in 2008, Remember Remember has continued to enlighten and entertain readers wanting to brush up on their history. Lively, exciting, full of great stories and humorous asides, this book looks at the key events in British history, covering all the important dates, people and events. Each subject is presented in short, self-contained 'articles', designed to be dipped into on the readers whim. Concise and authoritative, Remember, Remember makes history interesting and accessible for everyone once again.

Author : J. A. Sharpe
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674019355
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remember, Remember written by J. A. Sharpe and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bonfire Night, observed annually to memorialize the Gunpowder Plot, is one of England's most festive occasions. Why has the memory of this act of treason and terrorism persisted for 400 years? Sharpe unravels the web of religion and politics that gave rise to the plot, and wittily shows how celebration of that night has changed over the centuries.

Author : Deborah Webb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781786232717
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remember Remember The Fifth of November written by Deborah Webb and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-13 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the excitement and magic of Bonfire Night through the eyes of Henry Hedgehog

Author : ALAN. MOORE
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1779511736
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book V for Vendetta Book & Mask Set written by ALAN. MOORE and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world without political freedom, personal freedom and precious little faith in anything comes a mysterious man in a white porcelain mask who fights political oppressors through terrorism and seemingly absurd acts. It's a gripping tale of the blurred lines between ideological good and evil. The inspiration for the hit 2005 movie starring Natalie Portman and Hugo Weaving, this amazing graphic novel is packaged with a collectable reproduction of the iconic V mask.

Author : Richard Brassey
Publisher : Orion Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781842552315
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guy Fawkes written by Richard Brassey and published by Orion Publishing Company. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the life of Guy Fawkes, with emphasis on his involvement in the Gunpowder Plot, an attempt to blow up the British Houses of Parliament during the reign of James the first.

Author : Judy Parkinson
Publisher : Delacorte Press
ISBN 13 : 044033893X
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remember, Remember (The Fifth of November) written by Judy Parkinson and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From civil wars to world wars . . . from the Black Death to the Bard to the Blitz, here is the sweeping saga of the storied history of Britain in bite-sized chunks. Was Bloody Mary the same as Mary, Queen of Scots? How many King Henrys were there—and which was which? Who won the Wars of the Roses—and why does it matter anyway? From the darkest days of the Hundred Years War to the brutal religious battles of the sixteenth century to the eponymous age of Queen Victoria—on whose empire the sun never set—Remember, Remember captures the scope of British history from the Roman invasion to the end of World War II: a drama of blood, death, love, sex, and betrayal. And it does so in 150 concise, accessible and highly entertaining entries. It’s the perfect quick refresher for all the things we learned in school but may have forgotten since. For lovers of all things British and for anyone who wants to know more about the country that once ruled America, here is an exciting, galloping tour of the rich, extraordinary story of Britain. * November 5, 1605, is the notorious date when Catholic conspirators, including Guy Fawkes, allegedly attempted to blow-up the Houses of Parliament. From the Hardcover edition.

Author : Antonia Fraser
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0297857932
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gunpowder Plot written by Antonia Fraser and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-06-24 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ... With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded the fateful night of 5 November 1605, she unravels the tangled web of religion and politics that spawned the plot. 'An excellent book which unravels the whole story of the plot' Literary Review 'Told with impressive scholarship and panache ... with a sense of pace and tension worthy of a John le Carré novel' Sunday Telegraph

Author : Daniel Swift
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199977038
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Common Prayers written by Daniel Swift and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Societies and entire nations draw their identities from certain founding documents, whether charters, declarations, or manifestos. The Book of Common Prayer figures as one of the most crucial in the history of the English-speaking peoples. First published in 1549 to make accessible the devotional language of the late Henry the VIII's new church, the prayer book was a work of monumental religious, political, and cultural importance. Within its rituals, prescriptions, proscriptions, and expressions were fought the religious wars of the age of Shakespeare. This diminutive book--continuously reformed and revised--was how that age defined itself. In Shakespeare's Common Prayers, Daniel Swift makes dazzling and original use of this foundational text, employing it as an entry-point into the works of England's most celebrated writer. Though commonly neglected as a source for Shakespeare's work, Swift persuasively and conclusively argues that the Book of Common Prayer was absolutely essential to the playwright. It was in the Book's ambiguities and its fierce contestations that Shakespeare found the ready elements of drama: dispute over words and their practical consequences, hope for sanctification tempered by fear of simple meaninglessness, and the demand for improvised performance as compensation for the failure of language to fulfill its promises. What emerges is nothing less than a portrait of Shakespeare at work: absorbing, manipulating, reforming, and struggling with the explosive chemistry of word and action that comprised early modern liturgy. Swift argues that the Book of Common Prayer mediates between the secular and the devotional, producing a tension that makes Shakespeare's plays so powerful and exceptional. Tracing the prayer book's lines and motions through As You Like It, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, Othello, and particularly Macbeth, Swift reveals how the greatest writer of the age--of perhaps any age--was influenced and guided by its most important book.

Author : Ben Thompson
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061959170
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Badass written by Ben Thompson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The badasses populating the pages of Badass are the most savagely awesome historical figures to ever strap on a pair of chain mail gauntlets and run screaming into battle. Author Ben Thompson—considered by many to be the Internet’s foremost expert on badassitude—has gathered together a rogues’ gallery of butt-stomping rogues, from Julius Caesar and Genghis Khan to Blackbeard, George S. Patton, and Bruce Lee. Their bone-breaking exploits are illustrated by top artist from the fields of gaming, comics, and cards—DC Comics illustrator Matt Haley and Thomas Denmark, illustrator for the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering. This is not your boring high school history—this is tough, manly, unrelentingly Badass!