With Remember Remember The Fifth of November having just taken place a few days ago, it’s interesting that a pivotal site related to the plot to blow up Parliament has just been given protection. After their failure to blow up Parliament and assassinate King James I in November 1605, the gunpowder plotters fled to Holbeche… Continue reading Saving the home of the Gunpowder Plotters Last Stand
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Thomas Harrison – Executed whilst cheerful!
Whilst walking around the City of London earlier this week, I came across a sign that I had seen several times before. It had always made me smile, perhaps a little perversely given the circumstances but also as I admired the steadfastness of Major General Harrison… whoever he might have been. I’d always vowed to… Continue reading Thomas Harrison – Executed whilst cheerful!
Stephen Liddell 