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The Gunpowder Plot: torture and persecution in fact and fiction

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In 1605, England’s parliament was sitting on a powder keg, literally. Like now, the country was bitterly divided between two factions, with religion at the heart of the schism after the Reformation pitted Protestants and Catholics against each other in a life or death struggle. History tells us that...

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Published: 2019
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