Gunpowder Plot
Attempt in 1605 to assassinate King James I and re-establish a Catholic monarchy by blowing up the House of Lords.
Atterbury Plot
Conspiracy named after Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester and Dean of Westminster, aimed at restoring the House of Stuart to the throne of Great Britain.
1996 Manchester bombing
Attack carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army on Saturday 15 June 1996, when they detonated a 15,000 kg bomb in the centre of Manchester, England.
Henry Garnet
English Jesuit priest executed for his complicity in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.
Guy Fawkes
Member of the group of English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.
Cheetham Close
Cheetham Close, a hill in the West Pennine Moors above Turton in Lancashire, is the site of an ancient stone circle.
Combination Acts
Acts of Parliament passed by the Tory government of William Pitt the Younger in response to its fear of unrest or revolution among the working classes. They banned workers from combining to form trade unions and prevented them from striking, calling for shorter hours or increased pay.
Thomas Tyldesley
Supporter of Charles I and a Royalist commander during the English Civil War.
Waldegrave Conspiracy
Supposed plot to kill Queen Elizabeth I and reintroduce Catholicism to England.
Battle of Howe Bridge
Riot that took place on 28 January 1881 against the background of an acrimonious strike by 50,000 miners from pits on the Lancashire coalfield, characterised by mobs of miners picketing working pits.