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Gunpowder Plots
Contemporary Review, Summer, 2006
Gunpowder Plots. Brenda Buchanan et al. Allen Lane. [pounds sterling]14.99. ix + 188 pages. ISBN 0-713-99886-5. Remember, remember, the fifth of November and the British have been remembering ever since 1605 when Guy Fawkes failed in his attempt to blow up the Palace of Westminster and kill not only the King but both Houses of Parliament.
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This short collection of six essays looks at as many aspects of the event and its commemoration. Once it was the day when the British celebrated the triumph of their Protestant faith and representative parliamentary system; it is now an occasion for bonfires and burnt sausages, kept alive because it has always been done. (The 'guys' have disappeared, done to death by the American import, 'Halloween'.) After an introduction by David Cannadine the contributors seek to shed light on the Guy Fawkes phenomenon: there is an historical background from Pauline Croft, a history of the day's celebrations from David Cressy, the anti-Catholic element (historically it was the Pope who was burnt in effigy, not Fawkes) from Justian Champion, the spectacular commemoration in Lewes (where the traditional anti-Popery motif survives) from Michael Jay, the growth of fireworks as an accompaniment from Brenda Buchanan, and a 'counter-factual' essay on what could have happened had Fawkes succeeded, from Lady Antonia Fraser. (A.C.)
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