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 ...

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 ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - This week 250 years ago a South Carolina ship sailed to St. Augustine, Florida on a mission to secure gunpowder for the war. The sloop Commerce intercepted the ...

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 ...

In 1605, a group of disaffected Catholics plotted to assassinate King James I by blowing up the House of Lords. They hoped to restore Protestant England to Catholicism and end the persecution of their ...

When our children were very small we took them to an organised bonfire, held in a municipal park. There was a huge, expertly engineered tipi of wood, which burst into life at the appointed time ...