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| Administrator |
Posted - 11/01/2005 : 02:50:12
Greetings all and welcome to the new site, finally, and in time for the 400th anniversary. I will be regularly updating the material on the site over the next few months, and this forum will serve as my message board for what is new.
I encourage you to register your name and post on this forum. The GPS receives more than 50 emails a week from people asking a variety of questions, many on the plot, many related to their own family history, and still more from television and production houses looking for assistance. If you have a question then by all means post it and hopefully a growing community will be able to answer it for you.
For the time being please enjoy the new look of the site. You can still access the old one through the old URL - http://www.gunpowder-plot.org/gun-plot.htm
The last remaining information on the old site will be removed in the next few days and put up on the new one, then a redirect will be established so access to the old site will be removed. |
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| Administrator |
Posted - 10/09/2006 : 15:48:59
The recent server issues regarding the forum access have now been resolved and members are once again free to post. Sorry for any inconvenience in the lead up to this years celebrations. |
| Administrator |
Posted - 04/08/2006 : 13:04:29
The Photographic archive has been changed to include our most recent images, recovered from an old hard drive - http://www.gunpowder-plot.org/photographs.asp
These images provide an interesting account of the Ashby St Ledgers restoration as well as evidence of the gradual decline of Holbeche. Holbeche is presently an aged care facility and although the owners are mindful of the historical significance of the property, many of the original out buildings, including the old mill, have been demolished. Externally you can also see that very little remains of the original house and there is evidence of a recent (Georgian/Victorian) expansion of the original house when most of the windows were blocked in. |
| Administrator |
Posted - 11/27/2005 : 10:41:16
New pages have been added to the now restructured Current Research and Articles sections.
The Articles section will contain completed pieces by people who wish to have their work available here as well as some of the better articles from other sources that we have been given permission to reproduce here.
The Current Research section will contain lots of apparently disjointed pieces as they are transctibed from our research notes. Many are nothing more than a series of excerpts from books or a rough collection of quotes or references. Ultimately these will make there way into articles but we feel that their existence on this site will do several things - including providing raw material for people to read through and formulate their own opinions, or take from here and incorporate in their own research.
Both sections are a valuable insight into the contemporary times of the plot and help develop the bigger picture as it were. |
| Administrator |
Posted - 11/04/2005 : 10:44:54
The Gunpowder Plot Book is the "unofficial" name given to the series of documents from the Calendar State Papers reference 14/216.
You will see them referenced as SP14/216/xx and they represent the governments accumulation of all relevant documents pertaining to the plot, from confessions and interviews to letters between various parties.
It is not a "book" in the strictest sense of the term but that is what it has been called. There is presently no single work that translates or transcribes all of the documents under this CSP reference. You will find through many books on the plot, snippets from the most important documents such as the Fawkes or Wintour confessions, but we feel that the entire book needs to be made available for researchers, and therefore our aim is to translate/transcribe all the documents if we can. |
| gaffzilla |
Posted - 11/04/2005 : 02:55:14
Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this, it really deserves its own thread, but what is the Gunpowder Plot Book and who is translating the documents?
Gareth |
| Administrator |
Posted - 11/03/2005 : 20:00:56
Thanks for the vote of approval Gareth. It's been far too long in coming I know. We have the entire Gunpowder Plot Book to put online eventually, what you see here already is but 5% of it (it's in excess of 500 pages of documentation and as you can appreciate a lot of it is almost impossible to read. We are concerned that putting up transcripts/translations of many of these documents in a vastly incomplete state will be of no use to researchers, however the counter to that is others might be able to help complete them and any information is valuable, complete or not.
In addition to the Gunpowder Plot Book we have a large number of miscellaneous documents that need putting online as well. These include deeds, land deals and other surety documents. All of these we hope will provide a bigger picture on who the plotters were and the type of lives they led.
It's a daunting task but I am hoping that we can achieve it. There is a lot more to come that's for sure and you should begin to see new things appearing at least every week. As I said in my previous post, this forum will act as a "What's New". |
| gaffzilla |
Posted - 11/03/2005 : 16:25:25
The new site is a VAST improvement - well done!
Any idea when we can expect the translations of thee rest of the documents? - they make great reading.
Gareth |
