The objective was to destroy the Houses of Parliament during its opening by King James I, who was Protestant, using barrels of gunpowder in a cellar directly below the House of Lords. The plan was ...

After renting a cellar underneath the Houses of Parliament and successfully storing 36 barrels of gunpowder there for some six months, the plan finally unravelled just hours before it was due to be ...

Find out more in Living Heritage: Gunpowder Plot Commemoration Does the cellar where Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament still exist? No, the cellar was destroyed in the fire of 1834 ...