Premium docs specialist Lightbox is moving into drama with Gunpower Siege, a scripted series for Sky History in the UK that promises to reveal the gripping truth behind the Gunpowder Plot. Chuku Modu ...

A novelist and popular history writer, Kelly traces the history of gunpowder from 10th-century China to the late 19th century, when it was supplanted by Alfred Nobel's nitroglycerin. Kelly takes ...

There was a 105-year history of gunpowder manufacture in this area. A 1921 history of Maynard noted that many local men found employment in the American Powder Mills, adding, "...occasional explosions ...

In 1605, a group of British Catholics, including Guy Fawkes and Robert Catesby, devised a plan to blow up the Houses of Parliament. They hoped to wipe out the anti-Catholic political establishment and ...

During the last year of the Nixon administration, again in Bill Clinton’s declining presidential years and then when weapons of mass destruction seemed terminally elusive, the land was alive with ...

GUNPOWDER: Alchemy, Bombards & Pyrotechnics: The History of the Explosive That Changed the World, by Jack Kelly, Basic Books, 2004, 261 pages, $25 (ISBN 0-465-03718-6) Among books that strive to show ...

We are The History of Gunpowder, an eight-piece freakout orchestra from Vancouver. We have a big ol’ horn line, violin, pedal steel, and some synthesizers. We live to put on fun, envelope-pushing ...

Today, fireworks mark celebrations all over the world. From ancient China to the New World, fireworks have evolved considerably. The very first fireworks — gunpowder firecrackers — came from humble ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

Modern Britain might have been a very different place if the Gunpowder Plot had gone according to plan. But for a month's delay in the opening of parliament, an unprecedented atrocity might well have ...