More than four centuries ago, a bunch of English Catholics planted explosives in Parliament to kill King James I.
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I was listening to CBC’s Writers and Company earlier today while driving down the QEW towards Niagara. This particular programme dealt with Shakespeare’s works and the differences in the plays he wrote during the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. The interviewee, James Shapiro, did an amazing job of situating some of his plays in contemporary […]
The Clerkenwell explosion, also known as the Clerkenwell Outrage, was a bombing in London on 13 December 1867. The Irish Republican Brotherhood exploded a bomb to try to free one of their members being held at Clerkenwell Prison.