Plot Collection (page 2)

Victorian scrap - Guy Fawkes and two of his co-conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot, 1605. late 19th century

Arrest of Guy Fawkes, Gunpowder Plot
Arrest of Guy Fawkes in connection with the Gunpowder Plot, 5 November 1605. 1605

16th century codes - the Babington cipher
The forged postscript to the letter of Mary Queen of Scots to Anthony Babington. Thomas Phelippes added the postscript, which was to incriminate Mary Queen of Scots

Guy Fawkes - Conspirator of the Gunpowder Plot
Guy Fawkes (1570-1606) - member of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Date: circa 1606

RIBERA, JOS (1588-1652). MARTYRDOM
RIBERA, Jos (1588-1652). Martyrdom of St Bartholomew. Work from the Spanish gallery of Luis Felipe de Orleans at Paris. The plot flows the

Usine e gaz de Vaugirard, 3 octobre 1870. Depart remis. Calme plot. Entrevue avec M. Picard, il me charge de differentes recommendations importantes pour le gouvernement e Tours. Mr

Lewis Thornton Powell aka Lewis Payne
Lewis Payne was implicated in the plot to kidnap President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. The group also included John Wilkes Booth, David Herold, Samuel Bland Arnold, Michael O Laughlen and John Surratt

Tomb - English artist and engraver William Hogarth, Chiswick
William Hogarth (1697 - 1764) - The tomb of the English artist and engraver in the churchyard at Chiswick, West London Date: circa 1907

Cartoon, Henry Irving and Wilson Barrett -- Mr Wilson Barrett will soon let us know that there is more than one English actor who can do justice to Shakespeare

Guy Fawkes Night - lighting firework laden guys
The Boy Who Got There First. A young boy defies health and safety rules by lighting the first of three Guy Fawkes all stuffed full of various fireworks. Date: 1932

Cartoon, Next Weeks Bashers, W E Gladstone
Cartoon, Next Weeks Bashers -- Waiting for the Old Man. Showing William Ewart Gladstone, Liberal Prime Minister, with ruffian MPs waiting for him round a corner. 1884

The Frenzy of Orlando by Ludovico Ariosto
Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533). Italian poet. The Frenzy of Orlando. Argument and allegory of the Third Chant. Venice, 1598

India. Sepoy Rebellion (1857). Conspiracy
India. Sepoy Rebellion (1857). India revolution that erupted as a reaction against British colonial policy. In 1857 the sepoys revolted and deprived of all authority to the East India Company (1858)

Manuscript about the sale of a plot at Vivas, bishop of Barcelona. 986. Antiquitatum Libri. Folio 26. Chapter Archive. Cathedral of Barcelona. Catalonia. Spain

Around Fier. Rural scenary. Republic of Albania
Rural scenery around the ruins of Apollonia. Fier. Republic of Albania

Caricature of A W Pinero, John Hare and W H Kendal
Caricature of A W Pinero (left, 1855-1934), John Hare (centre, 1844-1921) and William Hunter Kendal (right, 1843-1917), toasting the success of Pineros play, The Squire, at St Jamess Theatre, London

Caricature of A W Pinero as a clown
Caricature of Sir Arthur Wing Pinero (1855-1934), English actor, playwright and stage director. Seen here as a Christmas pantomime clown at St Jamess Theatre, London

William Fuller
WILLIAM FULLER Impostor associated with Titus Oates in the Popish Plot. Date: 1670 - 1717

Stephen College - 2
STEPHEN COLLEGE - k.a. The Protestant Joiner, involved in the Popish Plot affair; his vehement anti-Papal activities led to his being hanged and drawn for treason. Date: 1635 - 1681

Stephen College - 1
STEPHEN COLLEGE - k.a. The Protestant Joiner, involved in the Popish Plot affair; his vehement anti-Papal activities led to his being hanged and drawn for treason. Date: 1635 - 1681

John Baron Belasyse
JOHN, BARON BELASYSE Prominent royalist, wrongly accused by Oates and others of being a party to the imaginary Popish Plot. Date: 1614 - 1689

William Bedloe
WILLIAM BEDLOE, described as the Discoverer of the Popish Plot, in fact an unscrupulous liar whose implausible claims were inconsistent with those of Titus Oates and others. Date: 1650 - 1680

Miles Prance, Informer
MILES PRANCE, Catholic goldsmith who found fame during the Popish Plot as an informer, claiming to reveal the murderers of Edmund Berry Godfrey : perjurer, impostor. Date: flourished 1678 - 1689

Plotting room at the Royal Naval tactical school, Greenwich
At the Royal Naval tactical school, Greenwich: WRENS plotting the movements of opposed fleets on a transparent screen. 1947

Allotments in Fleet Street, London, WW1
Quite possibly the innermost allotment in London, a plot between Fleet Street and Fetter Lane cultivated by two sisters, the Misses Kersey, where they grew cabbages, cauliflowers, beetroots

Guy Fawkes - T-shirt / poster print design MR NICE GUY Date: 1605

Home Gardening magazine, September 1928
Home Gardening magazine featuring a suggestion for the layout of a front garden the design of which was apparently specially prepared by one of the greatest authorities in the country

The cottage problem: the need for sociability. How to erect eight houses with their garden plots. Two designs, ensuring adequate light and space, and a pleasant external appearance. 1914

Madagascar strategic island by G. H. Davis
Madagascar, the strategic island to Allied communications in the East, occupied by British forces, forestalls a Japanese plot during the Second World War

Jean Simmons and Donald Houston on location for the film, The Blue Lagoon (released 1949). Seen here plotting their position on the ship, Royal Flight. Date: circa 1949

Silhouette Calendar -- November, Guy Fawkes Day. Showing a little boy frightening two girls by lighting a firework. Date: 20th century

Robert Plot
ROBERT PLOT antiquary Date: 1640 - 1696

Robert Parsons - 2
ROBERT PARSONS Jesuit missionary in England, thought to have been the leading conspirator against Elizabeth and the instigator of the Gunpowder Plot. Date: 1546 - 1610

Sir Thomas Knevet
SIR THOMAS KNEVET Discoverer of the Gunpowder Plot. Date: circa 1605

Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia (1891-1942) - involved in the murder of the Mad Monk Grigori Rasputin (in 1916). One of the few Romanovs not to be murdered by the Bolsheviks. Date: circa 1910

Motor car in which Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed
Motor car in which Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, the Duchess of Hohenberg were murdered by Gavrilo Princip (one of a group of six Bosnian Serb assassins coordinated by Danilo Ilic)

Robert Plot (1640-1696)
Portrait of Robert Plot, a British naturalist, first Professor of Chemistry at Oxford University and the first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum

16th century codes
Anthony Babingtons acknowledgement of ciphers used with Mary Queen of Scots, September 1586 Date: 1586

Guy Fawkes Lantern in Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Grave of Joseph Conrad
The Grave of Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), Polish Novelist in Canterbury City Cemetery. Date: circa 1925

Longuenesse (St Omer) Souvenir Cemetery, France, WW1
Part of Longuenesse (St Omer) Souvenir Cemetery, northern France, during the First World War. Showing the graves of Staff Nurses A M Clinie and N M McCrie, and VADs D K Coles ands Thompson

Samuel Bland Arnold was implicated in the plot to kidnap President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. The group also included John Wilkes Booth, David Herold, Lewis Powell, Michael O Laughlen and John Surratt

John H. Surratt
John Surratt was accused of being implicated in the attempted kidnap of President Abraham Lincoln, and in the assassination. Date: 1844-1916

Guy Fawkes reprimands trespasser
A life-like effigy of the famous Gunpowder Plot conspirator reprimands a schoolboy who has trespassed, having climbed a ladder over a fence to take fruit from the store shed

British Ballad, Fair Rosamond
FAIR ROSAMOND (The Fate Of - The Bower Of) Legend has it that King Henry II of England (reigned 1154 - 1189) adopted Roasmond (Rosamond Clifford) as his mistress, and that

Shadow drawing. C. H. Bennett, Mr Guy Fox
Mr Guy Fox - Lantern House, Underhand. Seated, holding a book and with a quill behind his ear - but a more famous figure is cast upon his wall...could that be Guy Fawkes with lantern

Popish Plot Document
Proclamation ordering a complete inquiry into the (supposed) Popish Plot against the late Charles II, in the belief that the sinister conspiracy might continue

French Artillery Headquarters; First World War, 1916
Illustration showing the Artillery Department of a French Headquarters, near the Western Front, during the First World War, 1916

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