"and decapitated outside Newgate Prison on 1 May 1820. Arthur Thistlewood Arthur Thistlewood (1774–1 May 1820) was a British radical activist and conspirator in the Cato Street Conspiracy. He planned to murder the cabinet, but there was a spy and he was apprehended with 12 other conspirators. He killed a policeman during the raid. He was executed for treason. He was born in Tupholme in Lincolnshire, the extramarital son of a farmer and stockbreeder. He attended Horncastle Grammar School and was trained as a land surveyor. Unsatisfied with his job, he obtained a commission in the army at the age"
"years. King Arthur and the Arthurian legend were not entirely abandoned, but until the early 19th century the material was taken less seriously and was often used simply as a vehicle for allegories of 17th- and 18th-century politics. Thus Richard Blackmore's epics ""Prince Arthur"" (1695) and ""King Arthur"" (1697) feature Arthur as an allegory for the struggles of William III against James II. Similarly, the most popular Arthurian tale throughout this period seems to have been that of Tom Thumb, which was told first through chapbooks and later through the political plays of Henry Fielding; although the action is clearly"
"Here Lies Arthur Here Lies Arthur is a young-adult novel by Philip Reeve, published by Scholastic in 2007. Set in fifth or sixth century Britain and the Anglo-Saxon invasion, it features a girl who participates in the deliberate construction of legendary King Arthur during the man's lifetime, orchestrated by a bard. Reeve calls it a back-creation: not a genuine historical novel as it is not based on actual specific events; rather it is ""back-created"" from the legends, giving them a ""realistic"" origin. Reeve won the annual Carnegie Medal, recognising the year's best children's book published in the UK Scholastic published"
"Le Morte d'Arthur reworked existing tales of the legendary King Arthur, Queen Guinevere, Sir Lancelot, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table, drawing upon existing French and English stories. Research has long ago shown that Malory (c. 1415-1471) was familiar with the Fontevraud daughter house at Nuneaton and given the fame of its sister house Amesbury’s royal connections he chose Amesbury as the monastery to which he has Queen Guinevere retire as “abbas and rular” to find her salvation in a life of penance. The work was first published in 1485 by William Caxton. Apart from the importance of"
"19 of the M62 motorway, which provides transport links for the large distribution parks in the south of the town. The 1860s-built tall Parish Church of St Luke the Evangelist dominates the town centre and skyline. Heywood was the birthplace of Peter Heywood, the magistrate who aided the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot, whose family seat was Heywood Hall. Heywood has a station on the East Lancashire Railway, a heritage railway and tourist attraction. Evidence attests that human activity in the area extends back to the Mesolithic period; flints have been found in Heywood, in the Cheesden Valley and Knowl"
"his nephew Arthur Hallam is buried in the Elton family vault at St Andrew's church. Arthur Hallam is the subject of Alfred Tennyson's poem ""In Memoriam A.H.H."". Tennyson visited Clevedon Court in 1850, the year in which the poem was published, and also in which he was created Poet Laureate. William Makepeace Thackeray was a visitor to the court during Sir Charles's time and it was the inspiration for the house ""Castlewood"" which featured in his novel ""The History of Henry Esmond"" although, contrary to common belief, it is improbable that he wrote any of it at Clevedon Court. Samuel"
"of ""Rookwood"" and many more added in later editions. Of the other songs, some were sung by gypsies about love, some were hymns, and some were used to further the gothic setting. The name Rookwood alludes to the old Recusant (Roman Catholic) family of that name, most famous of whom was Ambrose Rookwood, executed in 1606 for his part in the Gunpowder Plot (the conspiracy which forms the theme of Ainsworth's 1841 novel ""Guy Fawkes""). Ainsworth, perhaps consciously, paid a double homage to this family, in that his later historical romance ""The Spendthrift"" concerns an eighteenth-century heir of the Gage"
"of Cornwall in the 13th century, during the later medieval period. It later fell into disrepair and ruin. Archaeological investigation into the site began in the 19th century as it became a tourist attraction, with visitors coming to see the ruins of Richard's castle. In the 1930s, excavations revealed significant traces of a much earlier high status settlement, which had trading links with the Mediterranean during the Late Roman period. The castle has a long association with legends related to King Arthur. This began in the 12th century when Geoffrey of Monmouth described Tintagel as the place of Arthur's conception"
"1793: Sedition trials held:Thomas Muir of Huntershill and other radical reformers are sentenced to transportation 1794: Robert Watt, a former spy, is sentenced to death for ""Pike Plot"" 1797: Snuff manufacturer James Gillespie dies after bequeathing a hospital for the aged poor and a ""free school for the education of poor boys"" 1799: City has access to 3 million litres of drinking water a day 1800: Stein's Canongate brewery is built 1802: Demolition of the Luckenbooths (apart from east-most) in the High Street begins; architects William Sibbald and Robert Reid produce a final plan for the building of a 'Second"
"were Thomas Gaspey's ""Richmond"" (1827) and ""History of George Godfrey"" (1828), Edward Bulwer-Lytton's ""Paul Clifford"" (1830) and ""Eugene Aram"" (1832), and William Harrison Ainsworth's ""Rookwood"" (1834), which featured Dick Turpin. Charles Dickens' ""Oliver Twist"" (1837) is often also considered to be a Newgate novel. The genre reached its peak with Ainsworth's ""Jack Sheppard"" published in 1839, a novel based on the life and exploits of Jack Sheppard, a thief and renowned escape artist who was hanged in 1724. Thackeray, a great opponent of the Newgate novel, reported that vendors sold ""Jack Sheppard bags"", filled with burglary tools, in the lobbies"
"morals of the 19th century that say a man can easily compromise a young unattended woman by being on the road with her, he takes her to her grandfather’s house in London . However, upon arriving in London, it’s apparent that Cherry’s grandfather, Lord Nettlecombe, has left his London home for the season. So Desford takes Cherry to stay with Henrietta and her mother. The plot thickens. When Desford finally tracks Nettlecombe to Harrowgate, Desford finds that the old man has recently married his housekeeper, as a matter of economy. He also shows no interest whatsoever in his granddaughter's plight"
"of England; most of the inhabitants are centenarians, and some are older (""the last time I went to the play...was with Charles the Second and Louise de Querouaille, to see Betterton play Shylock""). The inconsequential plot is concerned with the attempts of two elderly ladies, Mrs Hurstpierpoint and Mrs Thoroughfare, to marry off the heir to Hare-Hatch House, Captain Dick Thoroughfare. Captain Thoroughfare, who is engaged to a black woman, Niri-Esther, is loved frantically by Thetis Tooke, a farmer's daughter, but prefers his 'chum', Jack Whorwood, to both of them. Meanwhile Mrs Yajñavalkya, a black masseuse, manages an alliance between"
"the ""Barsetshire"" novels of Anthony Trollope, who attended Winchester College; ""The Warden"" (1855) is said to be based on a scandal at the Hospital of St Cross. A fictionalised Winchester appears as ""Wintoncester"" in Hardy's ""Tess of the d'Urbervilles"" (1891). Some of the action in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's ""The Adventure of the Copper Beeches"" (1892) takes place in the city—the Black Swan hotel mentioned in the story formerly stood at the end of Southgate St and is still acknowledged by a figure on the outside of the building. In Charles Kingsley's romantic history ""Hereward the Wake"" (1866), Hereward smashes"
"between Turberville and Titus Oates, the inventor of the Plot, whom Turberville now denounced as a villain. He also gave evidence against his former patron Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, who was indicted for treason in November 1681. The following month he fell ill of smallpox and died, supposedly fulfilling a prophecy of Lord Stafford that Turberville would not outlive him by even a year. Despite rumours that he returned to the Catholic faith at the end, in fact he was attended by Thomas Tenison, the future Archbishop of Canterbury. To the surprise of many, he maintained to"
"this act, or of the subsequent revenge although the Black Prince is known to have possessed land in nearby Princes Risborough during his life. The greater part of the original house was rebuilt in brick in the 17th century, this was again altered in the 18th century. The East wing overlooking the gardens is of a severe classical 18th century style, built between two earlier wings. The chief feature of the grounds is 'The Glade', an avenue through the woods bordered by rhododendrons and ancient oaks. It is terminated by two small lodges known, because of their design, as the"
"is associated with the Arthurian legend, and was mentioned in Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur, published in England in the 15th century. Elaine, maid of Astolat, drowned herself for the love of Sir Lancelot, Knight of the Round Table. The Feez family appears to have had some fascination for the legend - Adolph Feez's first child, born on 7 March 1890, was christened Elaine. Adolph Feez, for whom Astolat was commissioned, was born in Brisbane in 1858, son of Rockhampton businessman and politician Colonel Albrecht Feez and Sophia Milford, daughter of Moreton Bay's first Supreme Court Judge Samuel Milford. Educated"
"However, the local name Claysmore, earlier ""Clayes More Grove"" (1610), is associated with the family of William ""atte Cleye"" (that is 'at the clayey place') (1274), ""John Clay"" (1420). Clay Hill may derive from a surname rather than the word ""clay"". Whitewebbs has links with the Gunpowder Plot, as Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators are known to have used a safe house in Whitewebbs Lane, Enfield. The claim as to location of this safe house is held by the ""Rose and Crown"" public house, which was extended into what would have been cottages at the time. Fawkes met with"
"of Titus Oates. The charges were patently absurd: among other unlikely accusations, Arundell was alleged to have conspired with another Catholic peer, William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford, (who was executed in 1680 for his supposed part in the Plot) although it was common knowledge that following a bitter quarrel they had not spoken to each other for 25 years. So far from their having any motive to kill the King, both of them were well aware of how much they had gained from his policy of religious tolerance. As Stafford sensibly remarked, simple self-interest dictated that the Catholic peerage should"
"Hundred Years' War between the two countries. While at Portchester in July a conspiracy, known as the Southampton Plot, to overthrow Henry was uncovered. It was at the castle that he arrested the conspirators: Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge, Henry Scrope, 3rd Baron Scrope of Masham, and Sir Thomas Grey. The three men were executed in early August. In the 15th century the nearby town of Portsmouth some away grew to become a significant economic centre and an important port. It took over from Portchester as a place of military importance, and the castle entered a period of"
"he was given the honour of dining with George, Prince Regent, who wanted to meet the ""Author of Waverley"". Scott's 1819 series ""Tales of my Landlord"" is sometimes considered a subset of the ""Waverley"" novels and was intended to illustrate aspects of Scottish regional life. Among the best known is ""The Bride of Lammermoor"", a fictionalized version of an actual incident in the history of the Dalrymple family that took place in the Lammermuir Hills in 1669. In the novel, Lucie Ashton and the nobly born but now dispossessed and impoverished Edgar Ravenswood exchange vows. But the Ravenswoods and the"
"the borders of the Strathclyde Britons and the Galwyddel. This place is associated with a local legend of a ""heidless horseman"" who is supposed to have ridden down from it as an omen of death, a story which possibly has some origin in a Celtic head cult. The ""Poetical Works"" of Sir Walter Scott (1822) attest that Robert the Bruce hid in the forests about this hill after he had killed one of his rivals, John ""the Red"" Comyn. In the 9th and 10th centuries, waves of Gaelic settlers came to the area from Ireland. These Scoto-Irish people replaced the"
"David of Doncaster or Arthur a Bland. Pyle's book continued the 19th-century trend of portraying Robin Hood as a heroic outlaw who robs the rich to feed the poor; this portrayal contrasts with the Robin Hood of the ballads, where the protagonist is an out-and-out crook, whose crimes are motivated by personal gain rather than politics or a desire to help others. For instance, he modified the late 17th-century ballad ""Robin Hood's Progress to Nottingham"", changing it from Robin killing fourteen foresters for not honoring a bet to Robin defending himself against an attempt on his life by one of"
"Westward Ho! (novel) Westward Ho! is an 1855 British historical novel by Charles Kingsley. The novel was based on the adventures of Elizabethan corsair Amyas Preston (Amyas Leigh in the novel), who sets sail with Sir Francis Drake, Sir Walter Raleigh and other privateers to the New World, where they battle with the Spanish. Set initially in Bideford in North Devon during the reign of Elizabeth I, ""Westward Ho!"" follows the adventures of Amyas Leigh (Amyas Preston), an unruly child who as a young man follows Francis Drake to sea. Amyas loves local beauty Rose Salterne, as does nearly everyone"
"in his fictionalized account of British history, the ""Historia Regum Britanniae"". Geoffrey told the story that Arthur's father, King Uther Pendragon, was disguised by Merlin's sorcery to look like Gorlois, Duke of Cornwall, the husband of Igraine, Arthur's mother. Tintagel Castle has been a tourist destination since the mid-19th century. Owned by Charles, Prince of Wales as part of the landholdings of the Duchy of Cornwall, the site is managed by English Heritage. In the 1st century AD, southern Britain was invaded and occupied by the Roman Empire. The territory of modern Cornwall was assigned to the Roman administrative region"
"main characters, in frequent episodes and in the use of metaphors. The sequel to this novel was ""The Virginians"", written in 1857–59. It takes place in both England and America, and details the lives of Esmond's grandsons, brothers George and Henry Warrington. Although popularised by British architects George Devey and Richard Norman Shaw, the anachronistic ""Queen Anne"" design style created in the latter part of the 19th century, for both buildings and furniture, won its Victorian nomenclature via readers' enthusiasm for Thackeray's detailed descriptions of that period in ""Henry Esmond"". Thackeray visited Clevedon Court in Clevedon, Somerset in 1848 and"
"the town itself was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Effelle. In the early 17th century, Monteagle Farm was one of the minor properties of the 'discoverer' of the Gunpowder Plot, Lord Monteagle. A tradition has grown up that some of the first plans for the plot were put together there, but this is highly unlikely. However, roads of the residential area around Monteagle Lane have been named after some of the conspirators in memory of the connection. Through the next few centuries, Yateley developed into a coaching hub between London and Reading. Local legend has it that"
"Rookwood (novel) Rookwood is a novel by William Harrison Ainsworth published in 1834. It is a historical and gothic romance that describes a dispute over the legitimate claim for the inheritance of Rookwood Place and the Rookwood family name. Ainsworth began to develop the idea of writing a novel in 1829. In a letter to James Crossley during that May, Ainsworth inquired about information about Gypsies and eulogies. By 1830, he began to work for the ""Fraser's Magazine"" and was with the magazine when he started writing ""Rookwood"" in 1831. A preface to the 1849 edition of the novel discusses"
"in Shakespeare's ""Henry V"", in which it is portrayed as a French-financed betrayal of the king to stop Henry's invasion plans. It is also portrayed in the anonymous play, ""The History of Sir John Oldcastle"" (c.1600) and in William Kenrick's ""Falstaff's Wedding"" (1760). Southampton Plot The Southampton Plot of 1415 was a conspiracy to replace King Henry V with Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March. Mortimer was the great-grandson of Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, second surviving son of King Edward III, and his claim to the throne was thus superior to that of Henry V and his"
"many of them historical or studies of manners set in Scotland and England, including ""The Minister's Wife"" (1886) and ""Kirsteen"" (1890). Her series the ""Chronicles of Carlingford"" has been compared with the best work of Anthony Trollope. In the late nineteenth century, a number of Scottish-born authors gained international reputations. Robert Louis Stevenson's (1850–94) work included the urban Gothic novella ""Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"" (1886), which explored the psychological consequences of modernity. Stevenson was also crucial to the further development of the historical novel with historical adventures in books such as ""Kidnapped"" (1886) and ""Treasure Island"""
"and Thomas Holcroft's ""A Tale of Mystery"" was the first of many English melodramas. Pierce Egan, Douglas William Jerrold, Edward Fitzball, James Roland MacLaren and John Baldwin Buckstone initiated a trend towards more contemporary and rural stories in preference to the usual historical or fantastical melodramas. James Sheridan Knowles and Edward Bulwer-Lytton established a ""gentlemanly"" drama that began to re-establish the former prestige of the theatre with the aristocracy. For much of the first half of the 19th century, drama in London and provincial theatres was restricted by a licensing system to the Patent theatre companies, and all other theatres"
"were the most successful operas of the era and have been among the most frequently revived. In the later 19th century there was an increasing appetite for large scale works that covered epic, biblical and mythical themes. This was reflected in the topics of operas, cantatas and oratorios, often utilising British poems and novels. These included choral works like William Sterndale Bennett's ""The May Queen"" (1858), Ebenezer Prout's ""Hereward"" and ""King Alfred"" and cantatas like Sullivan and Henry Fothergill Chorley's ""The Masque at Kenilworth"" (1864), John Francis Barnett's ""Ancient Mariner"" (1867) and Frederic Hymen Cowen's ""The Rose Maiden"" (1870) and"
"in 19th century American thought and religion. The Scottish dramatist Robert McLellan (1907-1985) wrote a number of full-length stage comedies which give a self-conscious representation of Edinburgh at the height of the Scottish enlightenment, most notably ""The Flouers o Edinburgh"" (1957). These plays include references to many of the figures historically associated with the movement and satirise various social tensions, particularly in the field of spoken language, between traditional society and anglicised Scots who presented themselves as exponents of so-called 'new manners'. Other later examples include ""Young Auchinleck"" (1962), a stage portrait of the young James Boswell, and ""The Hypocrite"""
"their emphasis on architecture and with history. The architectural descriptions within the novel tend to break up some of the aspects of the plot, but they serve to show how the Tower has changed over time. This transcends the temporal bounds of the plot to connect the origins of the Tower to the 19th century when Ainsworth published the novel. According to literary critic George Worth, ""Ainsworth seems constantly to be trying to remind his readers, living in an age of urbanization and industrialization in which historic old landmarks were being swept away or defaced or 'restored' beyond recognition, that"